Ritchie, Josiah S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems like this could be even more effective with a USB key formatted > to ext3 or reiser or similar. Am I missing something?
nope, that would be even easier than burning a CD.... but: Alexey Toptygin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > as ordinary user. But it then shouldn't be possible to run that > > executable with root permissions... right? > > Right, that's what the user mount option is all about. That's what I thought too but in my experimentation it seemed that the executables still showed up as root:root and rwsr-sr-x, even when mounted by user. However, I just figured out that that yes it keeps the "s" permission bit but simply doesn't honor it. whew! Judah
