Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2234 mails)

[alexm@xxxxxxxxxxx (alex medvedev)]

Hi,

if i remember correctly, recently suse-security list got a message saying
to disable the suid bit from the "mount" command...
i think it was for version 6.1 though...

-alexm

On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Philip Stokes wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Jon Pennington wrote:
> 
> > It does, but I'm not sure what to change to enable mount for users
> > at a shell level.  KDE and GNOME each have support for mounting
> > discs, and each have worked on my 6.0, 6.1, and 6.2 boxen.
> > 
> > On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 08:30:22   Philip Stokes wrote:
> > >Anyone else noticed that the mount command in SuSE 6.2 won't let users
> > >mount devices?
> 
> Hmm. KDE won't let me mount them unless I'm root either. mount is owned
> by root.root 755. I've tried fiddling with permissions and chowning it
> to root.disk, but it still tells me I must be root to mount anything.
> 
> Phil
> -- 


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