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Re: at-boot smbmount security.
- To: "Nadav Har'El" <nyh(at-nospam)math.technion.ac.il>
- Subject: Re: at-boot smbmount security.
- From: Oleg Goldshmidt <ogoldshmidt(at-nospam)computer.org>
- Date: 14 Aug 2001 16:41:41 +0300
- Cc: Ira Abramov <lists-linux-il(at-nospam)ira.scso.com>, linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il
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- In-Reply-To: "Nadav Har'El"'s message of "Tue, 14 Aug 2001 11:10:13 +0300"
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"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?
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Oleg Goldshmidt | ogoldshmidt@NOSPAM.computer.org
"If it ain't broken, it has not got enough features yet."
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