From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 3 15:12:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from apoq.skynet.be (apoq.skynet.be [195.238.2.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32AC237C04A for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 15:12:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by apoq.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id A453D1F664; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 00:12:14 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <14689.1084.894512.504331@onceler.kcilink.com> References: <14689.1084.894512.504331@onceler.kcilink.com> Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 00:07:32 +0200 To: Vivek Khera , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: fstab mount options Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 5:23 PM -0400 2000/7/3, Vivek Khera wrote: > # allow CD-ROM and ZIP drive user-mounting. > for i in /dev/*acd0* /cdrom /dev/*da0* /zip > do > chmod 0755 $i > chown $USER $i > done So, if you happen to have any regular fixed disks that are /dev/*da0* (e.g., the ones that /, /usr, /var, etc... are on), you will allow unprivileged users to mount them, presumably unmount them, and otherwise muck about with them however they want?!? Moof! I hope that this is on a machine that is effectively single-user (i.e., just you), and not one that allows anyone else to ever log in.... -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message