Arnold, in fact you are right - depending on conditions this can be a big security hole. It also is contradicting to the Linux-philosophy 'do not touch foreign data unless the user tells you to do so'. Moreover there seems to be no reaction on this issue. Therefore I did change the description flag to 'also affects security#
Ingo ** This bug has been flagged as a security issue -- /dev/sda3 is mounted despite the 'noauto' option in fstab https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/120829 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs