On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 11:43:07AM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 04:25:06PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > > > > I don't think it has to be or should be in the kernel. Basically, > > /dev/dk3 gets created or is used by the kernel. A daemon is notified > > (*cough* udevd) and that scans the device properties, finds the UUID and > > creates /dev/uuid/2345324523453245. It also finds the label and creates > > /dev/label/my-usb-stick. The latter is what you put in /etc/fstab. > > And now anyone who can jack around with the userspace daemon process > can cause you to mount a filesystem you didn't intend to mount.
This is already a problem with dkctl. And anyway, jacking around with the userspace daemon is unnecessarily complicated: if you have sufficient access to do that, you probably have sufficient access to just change the symlink. eric
