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From: marino.ladavac@siemens.at
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: User mount possible?
Date: 16 Jun 1997 18:03:47 +0200
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tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) writes:
> Uh, look at Linux *why*? The "nodev" and "nosuid" and "noexec" flags have
> been available in Berkeley Unix for years. In fact, I believe the first time
> I saw them was as a patch to the SunOS 4.0.3 kernel source.
Because these are mount(1) command line options. A perp with a user mount
privilege is guaranteed not to set them :) Instead, they have to be implied
if a non-root is doing a mount, and non-root mount is allowed only to a
usermount flagged directory. Usermount flag should be settable only by root.
>
> It's always nice to hear that Linux has invented yet another thing that
> someone else thought of years before. Really.
Especially if it's actually the case (if the Linux folks have taken these
precautions).
Still, my .sig applies :)
/Marino
>
> --
> Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com
> "American culture, Disneyland freak show -- screen in your living room a
> window for your tomb -- you can't compare to the world sitting there,
> repress your insecurities, watching it scared..." -Operation Ivy
--
As far as the differences between BSD and Systems V, that's
simple. System V sucks and BSD doesn't. :)
-- Curt Welch curt@kcwc.com