Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 23:36:44 +0800 From: adrian@freebsd.org To: Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz> Cc: adrian@freebsd.org, Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, "Andrew J. Korty" <ajk@purdue.edu>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [mount.c]: Option "user"-patch Message-ID: <19990902233644.C1215@ewok.creative.net.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909022145480.95414-100000@lion.butya.kz>; from Boris Popov on Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 10:03:06PM %2B0700 References: <19990901003014.A1215@ewok.creative.net.au> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909022145480.95414-100000@lion.butya.kz>
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On Thu, Sep 02, 1999, Boris Popov wrote: > > without needing yet another setuid binary/binaries.. > > Well, sysctl with list of pathes for user mounts looks good. > Configuration is simple and can be easliy changed at runtime. It is > always better to avoid setuid'ed binaries, this is more worse that > mount(8) can execute other mount_* binaries. > > However, as pointed by Mike Smith, enabling user mounts raises a > risc of kernel panics from, for example, corrupted floppy disk. This > should lead to more stronger *fs code. Ahh, another discussion entirely, which I'm not going to get into without working code. :-) Adrian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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