Subject: Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs
To: None <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Wolfgang Solfrank <ws@tools.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/19/1999 14:17:49
Hi,

> huh?  NetBSD (at least) allows non-root mounts (forced to
> nodev,nosuid, ..) if the user owns the mount point and has appropriate
> access to the underlying device..
> 
> I thought that was a 4.4Lite feature..

BTW, since non-root users can mount anything, we should make the filesystems'
code more robust, so that one cannot take the machine down by inserting
random media and mounting it.

Ciao,
Wolfgang
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