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From: kaba@wintermute.north.de (Kai Bartels)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
Subject: Re^2: Secure floppy filesyetms (was Re: interesting feature on AMIX..)
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.000856.278@wintermute.north.de>
Date: 25 Jun 91 22:08:56 GMT
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dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
>    There is no way to secure a floppy.  The user could easily put a setuid
>    root executable on it and then it would not really matter *where* it
>    is mounted.
If, as Wolfram quoted, you can't execute setuid programs this won't work!
But I too think that allowing users to mount floppies would be a security
hole in itself, though I can't think of an example right now. ;-)

>					    -Matt
greetings, Kai
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