Strange mounting issue with ext3

Patryk Zawadzki patrys at pld-linux.org
Tue Apr 7 14:30:52 PDT 2009


On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson
<mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
> The last thing I want is having a user-permission-squashed ext3
> partition. For that matter, I am not sure I like the idea of an
> auto-mounted ext[23] file system at all. The last thing I want is
> someone to be able to copy a SUID program from a removable file
> system without having root access in the first place.

Uhm, copying a SUID program makes it SUID to your UID so what's the gain?

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Patryk Zawadzki


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