james wrote: > On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 04:57:10PM -0500, Paul Fox wrote: > > i would like to propose giving user-level read/write access to any > > USB device which isn't an auto-mounted filesystem. perhaps an easier > > rule would be, any non-storage USB device. > > > > can anyone think of reasons that this would be unacceptable? (i assume, > > but don't know, that this would not be hard to implement. > > devices that provide storage interfaces are likely to be the next > barrier, and so all we have done is accept the non-storage devices now > and create more pain later. > > what is the reason for not allowing user-level read/write access to any > storage USB device?
only that the they're probably already mounted under /media, with the obvious consequences if you write directly to the device. that's why my first suggestion above took whether it's being auto-mounted into consideration. paul > > i recall setuid used to be a risk, but i thought that got fixed with > mount options that suppress it. > > -- > James Cameron > http://quozl.linux.org.au/ > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =--------------------- paul fox, [email protected] _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
