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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!panix!news.panix.com!not-for-mail From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: User mount possible? Date: 16 Jun 1997 02:40:20 -0400 Organization: Panix Lines: 34 Message-ID: <5o2n4k$114@panix2.panix.com> References: <5nr27n$ees@vestein.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de> <5nu2di$7o@xciv.demon.co.uk> <8767vgm5sw.fsf@devnull.ruhr.de> Reply-To: tls@rek.tjls.com NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com X-Newsposter: trn 4.0-test55 (26 Feb 97) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:3562 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42868 In article <8767vgm5sw.fsf@devnull.ruhr.de>, Benedikt Stockebrand <benedikt@devnull.ruhr.de> wrote: >paul@xciv.org (Paul Civati) writes: > >> In article <5nr27n$ees@vestein.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de>, >> wb@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de (Wilhelm B. Kloke) writes: >> >> > I ran into the following problem. I am serving diskless workstations >> > on FreeBSD (2.2, if that matters). I want the users of these >> > workstations to be able to mount their local disks, floppies and >> > CD-ROM, and use local swap space, if available. The man pages >> >> Some systems (Linux for one, I think) have a 'user' mount flag, to >> enable ordinary non-root users to mount devices. > >Yes. And once you're at that you also need things flags like >"ignoresuid", "ignoredevs" and another bunch of these. If anyone is >really going for this you might take a look at Linux first about these >flags. Simply having a user mount a file system that contains a suid >root file or an improperly protected /dev/kmem doesn't seem such a >good idea... Uh, look at Linux *why*? The "nodev" and "nosuid" and "noexec" flags have been available in Berkeley Unix for years. In fact, I believe the first time I saw them was as a patch to the SunOS 4.0.3 kernel source. It's always nice to hear that Linux has invented yet another thing that someone else thought of years before. Really. -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com "American culture, Disneyland freak show -- screen in your living room a window for your tomb -- you can't compare to the world sitting there, repress your insecurities, watching it scared..." -Operation Ivy