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

[Richard Gooch]

H. Peter Anvin writes:
> Richard Gooch wrote:
> > >
> > > Yes it does: I insert the floppy, you have a script running to poke
> > > at the floppy and BOOM!  You own my floppy.
> > 
> > Nope, run a little proggy:
> >     while (1)
> >     {
> >         stat ("/dev/floppy/0", &statbuf);
> >         if (i_dont_own_it (statbuf))
> >         {
> >             fprintf (stderr, "It's not yours: try again later\n");
> >             exit (1);
> >         }
> >         sleep (25);  /*  Less that the autounload time  */
> >     }
> > 
> 
> Great... now you want every user to do that?

Why not? It's a non-suid reservation programme. And it does look like
some kind of reservation programme is required.

                                Regards,

                                        Richard....
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