Subject: Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs
To: None <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Wolfgang Solfrank <ws@tools.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/24/1999 14:59:09
Hi,

> > 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.
> 
> They can't mount anything, they need to have access to the block devices.

Of course there are some restrictions.

What I meant to say was that code of the various filesystems currently
assumes that the data on the media is somewhat consistent.  Since the
intention is that Joe User can mount some arbitrary floppy (or zip disk,
or ...), the in kernel filesystem code needs to check any data it
reads off the media for plausibility.

Ciao,
Wolfgang
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