Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:23:23 +0200 From: Alex Dupre <ale@FreeBSD.org> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RFC: Adding a ``user'' mount option Message-ID: <4430BF5B.80406@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4430BA79.2030403@freebsd.org> References: <1144042356.824.16.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <4430BA79.2030403@freebsd.org>
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Colin Percival wrote: > Generally speaking it's much better to add a new setuid program which does > exactly what you need, rather than making an existing and possibly insecure > program setuid. Generally speaking I agree with you. To minimize the impact of having to run a different 'mount' executable (that I doubt desktop environments will likely do) it would be nice if 'mount' could automatically run 'usermount' if called by a regular user. -- Alex Dupre
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