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Re: Secure setuid mount program - possible?

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From: Rick Lindsley
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 19:49

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In <BUZZ.92Aug19092622@toxicavenger.bear.com> buzz@fsrg.bear.com writes:

    We wish to make mount and umount available to two or three non-root
    accounts.

Setuid issues aside, make sure that they are judicious in protection of
their accounts. Anything you base on trusting them goes out the window
if their accounts can be compromised.

Rick

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Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!tessi!rick
From: rick@tessi.com (Rick Lindsley)
Subject: Re: Secure setuid mount program - possible?
Message-ID: <1992Aug19.194911.14604@tessi.com>
Organization: Test Systems Strategies, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon
References: <BUZZ.92Aug19092622@toxicavenger.bear.com> <1992Aug19.174504.6845@geac.com>
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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 19:49:11 GMT
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