Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 09:54:32 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fstab mount options Message-ID: <v04220800b5874803e615@[195.238.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <20000703163045.A248@dialin-client.earthlink.net> References: <m266qmc43b.fsf@reader.ptw.com> <14689.1084.894512.504331@onceler.kcilink.com> <v0422082db586be8b6c6b@[195.238.1.121]> <20000703163045.A248@dialin-client.earthlink.net>
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At 4:30 PM -0700 2000/7/3, Crist J. Clark wrote: > From the comment, I would say he has a SCSI Zip drive. The same line > could apply to Jaz, an ancient Bernoull, or the like. > > The risk I see is does this method let users mount with setuid? Right, but if he had any other SCSI disks on the system (such as the disk with /, /usr, /var, etc...), wouldn't this also allow them to be mounted & unmounted as desired by the user? Certainly if you're talking about your own laptop or dedicated desktop machine, the rules can be relaxed somewhat. However, in general this just seems to be a particularly unsafe practice. That is, unless I've missed something fundamental? -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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