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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


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