Hi,
I'm trying to figure out why administrative privileges are required for
both the automount program and to access the kernel autofs interface.
Perhaps I've missed something but I can't see the security hole caused
by allowing non-root users (with suitable directory permissions) to
set-up their own automount points?
If it is not a security risk, then it would be useful if this
restriction could be removed to allow fun hacks with things like FUSE.
For example, I would like to set things up so if I move into
/home/myhome/sshfs/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/, I automatically get connected via sshfs to
'foo' as user 'bar'. However this can only be done effectively if the
automount process managing /home/me/sshfs is started by my user account.
Otherwise there is no easy route to getting access to my ssh agent,
allowing one-password-only logins (and even my X11 session so I can have
a GUI to ask for the passwords etc...).
--
Jacob Bower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Custom Computing Group - http://cc.doc.ic.ac.uk/
Department of Computing - http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/
Imperial College London - http://www.ic.ac.uk/
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