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Re: at-boot smbmount security.



"Nadav Har'El" <nyh@math.technion.ac.il> writes:

> So what: it is possible (for the superuser) to set up /etc/fstab lines
> which will allow ordinary users to mount/unmount floppies and cdroms (see
> mount(8) for more information). Then KDE only needs to do 'mount /mnt/floppy',
> and so on. It has no need for reading /etc/fstab when not running as a super
> user. If it does have such a "need", it can (and should) be fixed.

But when KDE (or a user) issues "mount /mnt/floppy" mount(8) needs to
look into /etc/fstab to see how to do it (options etc), right?

-- 
Oleg Goldshmidt | ogoldshmidt@NOSPAM.computer.org 
"If it ain't broken, it has not got enough features yet."

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