Strange mounting issue with ext3

[pgf at laptop.org]

patryk wrote:
 > 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?

even suid-to-me is more of a risk than not-suid-at-all.

clearly something like squash-suid-on-copy (is that even possible?)
might be in order.

paul
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 paul fox, pgf at laptop.org