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

[Steve Warren]

In article <dillon.8977 at overload.Berkeley.CA.US> 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.

The utility that calls mount would not allow a disk with setuid root
executables on it.  Since the Amiga knows when a floppy is ejected, it should
be possible to note such action and unmount the filesystem upon ejecting the
disk.  This would preclude mounting-and-swapping to get around security.
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