Re: Autofs: Need UID & VFS hook, security notice

[Richard Gooch]

Christopher W. Curtis writes:
> Richard Gooch wrote:
> 
> > Hm. I wonder if there are some situations where a floppy user might
> > not have console access? Say someone else is sitting in front of the
> > console, but isn't using the floppy. Is this a scenario which people
> > care about?
> 
> It's happened to me many a time.  In a public lab, things like floppy
> drives can get trashed pretty easily, so you ask the person at the
> console to insert the floppy, they look at you strange, you go back to
> your station and copy your files, type 'eject floppy' (solaris), wander
> back over, thank them and take the disk.
> 
> And I don't understand how you can determine 'console'.  All my
> linux boxes have 6 consoles, and there are often a few different
> users on each of them.

This is a good point too. The first console user might not necessarily
want to use the floppy.

Basically, we need a programme to "reserve" the floppy.

                                Regards,

                                        Richard....
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