On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 16:50 +0200, Robert Schiele wrote:
> Security problem.  Consider you could do this: Create an image with
> passwd and
> shadow file and do "mount -o loop,ro myiso.iso /etc".
> 

Not if mount checked that you had write permission to the directory
(not that mount checks that now, but it would make more sense
if it just did a permission check on the mount point, not insist
that you be root).



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