[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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