On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 09:57, David Fitch wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 08:38:14AM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 08:24, David Fitch wrote:
> > > 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)
Ah. I haven't actually tried it with an smb share. Cool.
> > 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.
Oh. mount is installed setuid. Back to my box, then. :-)
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