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From: stuart@bms-at.UUCP (Stuart D. Gathman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Becoming ROOT on MINIX
Message-ID: <397@bms-at.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22-May-87 12:55:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: bms-at.397
Posted: Fri May 22 12:55:48 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 23-May-87 17:30:09 EDT
References: <600@dutesta.UUCP> <832@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Organization: Business Management Systems, Inc., Fairfax, VA
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Keywords: protection minix
Summary: mount security


The mount program should check to see if the user has access to the
block special file being mounted.  Set permissions for /dev/fd0 to
0600, and only root can mount/umount it.

If the current mount doesn't check this, just make mount executable
by root only.
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Stuart D. Gathman	<..!seismo!dgis!bms-at!stuathis