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Re: Setuid script - is this unsecure?

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From: Kent Landfield
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:02
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In article <92Nov23.165237.13903@acs.ucalgary.ca> steven@enel.ucalgary.ca (Steven Leikeim) writes:
>Another set of programs which I have used is mntdisk. This was posted in
>comp.sources.unix volume 22, and is available from many ftp sites. It includes
>support for diskettes UNIX and PC formats (at least on Suns), CD's and
>Erasable Optical Disks. It attempts to make sure that you do not mount
>diskettes with device files and mounts with the nosuid option to prevent
>misuse of diskettes.

mntdisk was posted to comp.sources.misc, *not* comp.sources.unix.  Here is
the info on it from the index.

/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume-issue/index:
v22i031 mntdisk/part01 mntdisk - Allow general users to mount disks, Part01/03
v22i032 mntdisk/part02 mntdisk - Allow general users to mount disks, Part02/03
v22i033 mntdisk/part03 mntdisk - Allow general users to mount disks, Part03/03

			-Kent+
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From: kent@sparky.imd.sterling.com (Kent Landfield)
Subject: Re: Setuid script - is this unsecure?
Message-ID: <1992Nov23.180258.18664@sparky.imd.sterling.com>
Organization: Sterling Software
References: <AMOSS.92Nov6102549@shuldig.cs.huji.ac.il> <1eg5tmINN9eh@cs.tut.fi> <92Nov23.165237.13903@acs.ucalgary.ca>
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