13 May
2006
13 May
'06
03:57
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 06:05:03PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
Not if mount checked that you had write permission to the directory (not that mount checks that now, but it would make more sense if it just did a permission check on the mount point, not insist that you be root).
Hmm, people seem to insist in creating security flaws: $ mount -o loop myext2image /tmp [ wait some time and steal privacy data of your colleagues. ] Robert -- Robert Schiele Tel.: +49-621-181-2214 Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:rschiele@uni-mannheim.de "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur."