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- From: schneck@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Bernhard Schneck)
- Subject: Re: non-root mount
- Message-ID: <schneck.724702712@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
- Sender: news@news.lrz-muenchen.de (Mr. News)
- Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 18:18:32 GMT
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- brent@spss.com (Brent Lambert) writes:
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- >A more secure alternative is to use sudo or a similar tool to selectively
- >allow root permissions for specific commands and users.
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- You can make the joe user mount command as secure as you want, you'll
- open a big security hole by allowing mounts of (user provided) unix
- filesystems on most machines.
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- The mntdisk package (posted some time ago to c.s.m) helps there ...
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- \Bernhard.
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