kaba@wintermute.north.de (Kai Bartels) (06/26/91)
dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes: > There is no way to secure a floppy. The user could easily put a setuid > root executable on it and then it would not really matter *where* it > is mounted. If, as Wolfram quoted, you can't execute setuid programs this won't work! But I too think that allowing users to mount floppies would be a security hole in itself, though I can't think of an example right now. ;-) > -Matt greetings, Kai -- "It's like looking at a landscape through a miroscope in the middle of a night Even half a revolution would only bring you light" <Thinkman> BITNET: g14b@dhbrrz41 + UUCP: kaba@wintermute.north.de Snail: Kai Bartels + Hudemuehler Str. 37 + 2800 Bremen 41 + FRG