Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 01:28:50 -0600 (MDT) From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: security@freebsd.org Subject: Removable media security in FreeBSD Message-ID: <200306080728.BAA24342@lariat.org>
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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
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