On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 08:24, David Fitch wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 07:22, Peter Hardy wrote:
> > This means you can mount Windows shares at boot time without storing
> > passwords in /etc/fstab, which is readable by anyone.
>
> or you can make /etc/fstab rw by root only, which is a lot simpler but
> probably not as secure.
That's actually not very secure at all, as mount options are visible
just using the mount command.
$ grep hda5 /etc/fstab
/dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
$ mount | grep hda5
/dev/hda5 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
I'm not sure, but I think doing that would also cause problems with the
user option, which lets regular users mount/unmount partitions.
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