On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 08:38:14AM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: > 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.
indeed but luckily not your samba passwd (doesn't even show up under ps) > I'm not sure, but I think doing that would also cause problems with the > user option, which lets regular users mount/unmount partitions. you'd be wrong, a non-root user can still mount cdroms at least on my box (but can't read /etc/fstab). After all it's the 'mount' command which has to read /etc/fstab not the person. Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
