On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Gilboa Davara wrote:


Umm.... mounting loop device is limited to root for a good reason.
Once a user had loop mount capability, it's much easier for him to mount
a modified FS where all the sbin utilities are suided...

A secure system gives users *very* limited mount capabilities.

The idea was to loop-mount a fs on my own computer as root, modify it there and 
then burn it onto a CD which could be mounted on another machine.  The other 
posters pointed out that this is theoretically possible, but the safeguard of 
allowing mounting only with -nodev by users prevents the problem.

Ephraim


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