Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 21:02:25 -0400 From: Anthony Schneider <anthony@x-anthony.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removable media security in FreeBSD Message-ID: <20030610010225.GA42913@x-anthony.com> In-Reply-To: <200306080728.BAA24342@lariat.org> References: <200306080728.BAA24342@lariat.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] if devfs supports (or soon will support) filesystem ACLs, that might be the way to go. obviously this won't get around the "trusted media" problem... -Anthony. On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 01:28:50AM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > I'm working with a FreeBSD user -- a teacher -- who's running KDE on a system > on which she neither has nor wants root privileges. She wants to be able to > mount and unmount floppies and ZIP cartridges from within KDE, using the > standard KwikDisk utility (which, by the way, generates mount and unmount > command that don't conform to FreeBSD syntax; however, it appears possible > to fix this by customizing the commands). > > I don't want to open up the floppy and ZIP drives to all users simultaneously, > since this would allow anyone to write someone else's removable media. Is > there a standard, SECURE way of allowing an unprivileged user at the console > to get at removable media that s/he has inserted in the machine? > > --Brett Glass > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+5S4gKUeW47UGY2kRAqRPAJ9v+hkqyT+tMdw3W2+cTpPw8za3ewCdHbqk KpC5MydVwoycYCYyyYGr/Ng= =Eu66 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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