From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 19 5:18:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from karl.tools.de (karl.TooLs.DE [192.76.135.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB36515102 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 05:18:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ws@tools.de) Received: from kurt.tools.de (kurt.TooLs.DE [192.76.135.70]) by karl.tools.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA13717; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 14:17:50 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by kurt.tools.de (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA28628; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 14:17:49 +0200 Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 14:17:49 +0200 From: ws@tools.de (Wolfgang Solfrank) Message-Id: <199908191217.OAA28628@kurt.tools.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs Cc: tech-kern@netbsd.org X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, > huh? NetBSD (at least) allows non-root mounts (forced to > nodev,nosuid, ..) if the user owns the mount point and has appropriate > access to the underlying device.. > > I thought that was a 4.4Lite feature.. 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. Ciao, Wolfgang -- ws@TooLs.DE (Wolfgang Solfrank, TooLs GmbH) +49-228-985800 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message