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Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 14:00:03 +0100
From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To: Stefan KORONKA <KoronkaS@interscope.ro>
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Subject: Re: desktops and mounting
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In-Reply-To: <D08F9E2FE307D411857300104B34F1A202DB45@URANUS>; from KoronkaS@interscope.ro on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 02:51:47PM +0200
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Stefan KORONKA said on Jan  4, 2001 at 14:51:47:
> > 
> > Interesting.  Now that I look and see, the mount program is already
> > suid on linux systems.  However, won't doing this mean that 
> > an arbitrary
> > user can mount/dismount any filesystem, not just the CDROM?  (linux
> > has the "user" option in /etc/fstab which is required for non-root
> > mounting.)  
> > 
> 
> Yes, I know.  Of course, you can do only "chmod 4550 mount_cd9660", 
> but you still need to modify the access for the umount.
> 
> You better ask this on -questions; i am wondering what the answer 
> is too - if there will be some answer.

It's been asked before, several times. The standard answer is "read
the FAQ".  I wasn't really expecting to get better answers this time,
just wondering whether anyone else thinks it is a problem.  The
sudo suggestion looks nice too.

Rahul.


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