Re^2: Secure floppy filesyetms (was Re: interesting feature on AMIX..)

[Kai Bartels]

dillon at overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
>    There is no way to secure a floppy.  The user could easily put a setuid
>    root executable on it and then it would not really matter *where* it
>    is mounted.
If, as Wolfram quoted, you can't execute setuid programs this won't work!
But I too think that allowing users to mount floppies would be a security
hole in itself, though I can't think of an example right now. ;-)

>					    -Matt
greetings, Kai
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