Subject: Re: ZIP drives
To: Charles Hannum <mycroft@deshaw.com>
From: John F. Woods <jfw@jfwhome.funhouse.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/04/1995 21:32:00
> Given the security model inherited from 4.4BSD, it's possible to use
> ZIP drives and the like without writing any setuid programs.  All the
> user needs is write permission to the device, and he/she can mount it
> on a directory he/she owns.

Well I'll be darned.  It works.

Could someone send me a summary of everything that has changed since
6th Edition UNIX?  Apparently I haven't been keeping up.  :-)

(Actually, the mount(2) manual page still implies that super user permission
is required.)