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Date:      Thu, 1 Feb 2001 23:00:12 +0100
From:      Bjoern Fischer <bfischer@Techfak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
To:        Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira <lioux@uol.com.br>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, poool@terra.com.br, pablos@linf.unb.br, infax@bol.com.br
Subject:   Re: a mtools wrapper (slight better control)
Message-ID:  <20010201230012.B2788@frolic.no-support.loc>
In-Reply-To: <20010201142813.A659@Fedaykin.here>; from lioux@uol.com.br on Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 02:28:13PM -0200
References:  <20010201142813.A659@Fedaykin.here>

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> 	I need to enable a group of workstations running XDM 
> accesses to local disk floppies with FAT16/32 FS(es). Therefore, I
> considered ports/emulators/mtools.
> 	All users will have access to the floppy drives.
> 	All workstations will permit remote shell emulation
> (sshd,...).  Thus, there can be a local and several remote users
> on all workstations.
> 
> 	HOWEVER, I would like to only permit the local
> logged user accesses to the floppy through mtools. I need this
> because this lab is considered hostile environment and remote
> users might try to be fun destroying other ppls floppy files.
> Before, I get any complains I considered doing something.

Hmm, why not simply giving /dev/fd0 to the user (chown) as it is
being done with /dev/console in <xroot>/lib/X11/xdm/GiveConsole,
and taking it away in <xroot>/lib/X11/xdm/TakeConsole?

  Bjoern

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