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

[H. Peter Anvin]

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

Why not?  Because it relies on winning the race condition, not solving
it.  You can bet any number of users is going to run this in their
.logins.

        -hpa

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