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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