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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Becoming ROOT on MINIX
Message-ID: <2546@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22-May-87 23:30:20 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 22 23:30:20 1987
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As quoted from <832@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> by abc@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Alan B. Clegg):
+---------------
| This brings up a point that may have been discussed before, but I don't
| remember it.  Why do 'casual users' get to mount and unmount disks?
+---------------

Because Minix is based on V7, and V7 allowed it.  System III (on the AT&T
side) changed that.

Actually, I used that feature quite a bit once under Xenix 2.3, back when
ncoast was a Radio Shack Mod 16 with 8MB HD; I mounted /dev/fd2 as /u/allbery
(after moving to /) and subsequently had 1.2MB to play with safely.  However,
it does seem a security hole.  At least you have source so you can fix it.

++Brando
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