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Re: more "mount" grist

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Riley)
Tue May 2 13:55:47 1995

To: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 May 95 07:26:35 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 02 May 95 11:40:43 -0400
From: Dan Riley <dsr@lns598.lns.cornell.edu>

> ultrix 4.x also allows nonroot users to mount NFS filesystems, if I remember
> right.  Shiver...

Yep.  However, it isn't as bad as you might think, as Ultrix forces
all non-root mounts to be nosuid,nodev, which makes 'em mostly
harmless (if someone knows otherwise, I'd like to hear about it).

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