[LUAU] Mounting Drives and floppy access

Chris Wong wongc at math.ed.hawaii.edu
Thu Dec 17 21:30:37 PST 1998


On Thu, 17 Dec 1998 bbraun at sparcy.synack.net wrote:

> On Thursday, Dec 1998 at 19:2:31 Chris Wong wrote: 
>  | 
>  | I think mtools might be a better bet. There's been quite a few bugs in
>  | mount. The kind that can give the user root access.
> 
>  Have you fixed the permissions on your mount though?  ;)
>  mount comes mode 4755 on most distributions, and that's all that 
>  matters for almost all buffer overflow attacks.  If you havn't 
>  changed the perms on it to something like 500, then there is no
>  additional security risk by adding a reasonable entry to /etc/fstab.

True... well.. I think more than anything else, I'm lazy. I don't feel
like sticking in the floppy and typing mount floppy.

Just mcopy a:flarg .

Or something like that.

Doesn't mean it's better... or even quicker. I think it's a matter of
taste. :)

--
chris





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