On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 21:08 +0200, Efraim Yawitz wrote:
> 
> 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
> 

In this case adding nodev and nosuid to the fstab line is in order.

Gilboa


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