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Date:      Tue, 24 Aug 1999 08:43:14 -0400 (EDT)
From:      der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org, tech-kern@netbsd.org
Subject:   Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs
Message-ID:  <199908241243.IAA00597@Twig.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>

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>> BTW, since non-root users can mount anything, we should make the
>> filesystems' code more robust, so that one cannot take the machine
>> down by inserting random media and mounting it.

> They can't mount anything, they need to have access to the block
> devices.

It is not unreasonable for vanilla users to have read/write access to
the block devices for removable media (floppies, zip disks, etc).  From
what I hear, it's not even particularly uncommon.

					der Mouse

			       mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca
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