On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 06:29:35 -0800, Norbert Kamenicky muttered:
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Well, the problem is that you can only mount an image as a user if the image and mountpoint are specified in the fstab. I still don't know why mount (or the kernel or something) can't start allowing mounts of a file readable by a user over a directory the user owns...
:-) :-) :-) ... security reason !
If you like to allow your users to mount just anything, (doesn't matter in which dir) it's the same, like give them root password ... never heard about Trojan horse ? :-)
PS. it's typical question of people who use windblowz (where security issues were made by diletants, if at all), but know nothing about unix security ...
hmmm.. could you give an example?
let's imagine that i allow all the wheel users to mount loopback-files (iso images).
how could that be a security risk?
thanks, gabor
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