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Re: [linux-security] Re: [linux-alert] Vulnerability in ALL linux distributions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Uphoff)
Wed Aug 14 02:16:14 1996
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 01:59:03 -0400
From: Jeff Uphoff <juphoff@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu>
To: borud@itea.ntnu.no
Cc: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, August 13, 1996 21:31:06 GMT
"BB" == Bjorn Borud <borud@itea.ntnu.no> writes:
BB> why not encourage people to use amd instead? or am I missing some
BB> major point here?
No stock version of 'amd' (that I've seen, at least) automatically times
out local (device) filesystem mounts; once you automount a device--as
opposed to an NFS--filesystem, it stays mounted, and you're forced to do
an 'amq -u' on it as root to force a timeout/unmount. That, or to make
'amq' suid root (possibly restricting its execution to a "trusted" set
of users). No bets on the suid-safety of 'amq' here though....
Has anyone written patches to the 'amd' suite to (optionally) change
this behavior?
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