Nathan Paul Simons wrote: > > Yeah, but a lot of our users like to use these machines remotely > because they can rely on them not to be in Windows (unlike our other > dual boot clients). We try to keep only stable releases running on > our production net machines so that we don't have to hard boot them.
Hrm. Even stable isn't stable on my Athlon. :( The same applied to my Alpha, but it didn't have a reset button anyway. (Turns out to have been a hardware problem.) > We figure that the usermount option (with appropriate nosuid, > nodev, and noexec options) in /etc/fstab are good enough. Confusing to > some users at first, but they learn quickly enough. It's also superior to the autofs option (as you'd see if you follwed my thread on the autofs list -- warning, it involves silly statements by RMS, terse retorts by hpa, and my usual long-windedness). Luckily, the /etc/fstab entry is sane. Autofs makes things easy, but it shouldn't distribute security problems. Luckily, only the yp server needs to be updated. Christopher
