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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Suggestion for 2.1
Date: 13 Jun 1995 12:50:19 +0200
Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden.
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Warner Losh <imp@village.org> wrote:
(Unprivileged floppy and CD mounting)
>I have
>/dev/cd0a /cdrom cd9660 ro 0 0
>/dev/fd0 /floppy msdos rw 0 0
>
>in my /etc/fstab. and just do
>
> sudo mount /cdrom
> sudo mount /floppy
>
>which isn't so bad :-).
Except that it's opening security holes (unless `sudo' has a rather
sophisticated configuration mechanism). No big issue for a machine at
home, but i get a better feeling with the well-taylored Perl script
than a `generic su hole'. Even though i'm normally alone on my
machine, there are a few accounts on it, and as long as the box is
connected through the SLIP to outside, they are free to log in and do
what they want. (Not that i think they'd like to do me some bad, but
i'd also have to make sure they don't do bad things _by accident_.)
>Too bad there's no way to put the stuff in your /etc/fstab w/o having
>it mounted on boot.
I still can imagine of the Linux solution as well. What exactly is
it? Does anybody here know?
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)