Yet another Linux on the desktop article

Jason Clinton me at jasonclinton.com
Mon Aug 2 14:45:19 CDT 2004


Uncle Jim wrote:

>to take the time to reboot the machine.  If I have a floppy with a copy of bash that
>is owned by root with permissions of 4755 and I come to your machine all I have to do
>

What about this new-fangled "nosuid" mount option I keep hearing about.
I mean, surely no one has thought about the security ricks of allowing
users to mount media before........





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