Thank you, Jim. That's what I hoped to hear :-) Jim McQuillan schrieb: > Rolf, > > ltspfs is userspace, using FUSE. > > Jim McQuillan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Eilert wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> An interesting debate about security when auto-mounting USB sticks has >> developed on my LUG mailing list. >> >> Someone asked how to create an automount system on his Linux, and one of >> the gurus asked back if he really wanted to take THAT RISK... His point >> is that via corrupted file systems, viruses or just crashes might come >> directly into the kernel (mounting is in kernelspace). So he advised to >> manually mount the devices via mtools or something else just happening >> in userspace. >> >> My idea was to use this automounting mechanism in LTSP to enable the >> students to use their USB sticks here, but now I'm wondering if it's >> secure enough to really dare that :-) >> >> Thanks for all hints. >> >> Rolf >>
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