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- From: jlnance@eos.ncsu.edu (JAMES LEWIS NANCE)
- Subject: Re: How do I provide the floppys to normal users????
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.124021.26479@ncsu.edu>
- Originator: jlnance@volt.ece.ncsu.edu
- Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System)
- Reply-To: jlnance@eos.ncsu.edu (JAMES LEWIS NANCE)
- Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
- References: <1992Dec14.160121.10722@wega.rz.uni-ulm.de> <andrewc.724369870@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 12:40:21 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- In article <andrewc.724369870@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au>, andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) writes:
- >
- > S_ESPENLAUB@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Klaus Espenlaub) writes:
- >
- > >Is there any possibility to give normal users the right to mount
- > >floppy drives???? I've been trying it with different success (it works only
- > >when floppys already in at boot time........)
- >
- >
- > So, take your chances if you like, but I don't recommend it...
- > i guess you could make a setuid root script that checked what tty they're on
- > and what they're mounting, so they can only mount floppies and only when
- > they're at the console...
- >
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- It is possible for normal users to mount floppies under ultrix. Setuid/setgid
- bits are ignored, and users are not permitted to access device files on the
- floppy. I dont see any security problem with this. Is there one? It is a
- nice feature. The only problem is that if a user mounts a file system, the
- mount point becomes owned by root, so the user can not write to it, but there
- is another program which mounts the floppy and changes the ownership of the
- mount point back to the user.
-
- my 2 cents
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- Jim Nance
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