On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Mark Newton wrote: > "Appropriate access" includes the idea that you need to own the mountpoint > directory. If you have a system that's so badly run that arbitrary users > own /tmp, then I'd say user mounts are the least of your problems :-)
True. But the fact is, if I can mount arbitrary filesystems into a name space seen by all processes, I can really cause some trouble. > Correct (unless you want your private stuff to be private, and chmod > your mountpoint's parent directory accordingly). People seem to be far more trusting of root than I am ... OK, I'll grant you can protect it from J. Random User. Why do people feel so willing to believe that chmod solves the world's problems? ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
