Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!achille
From: achille@cernvax.UUCP (achille)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: mount on SR10
Message-ID: <887@cernvax.UUCP>
Date: 29 Nov 88 12:24:05 GMT
References: <8811281448.AA02878@richter.mit.edu>
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Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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Hi, I've noticed a difference between the 5.3 and the BSD environments
under SR10.
To mount something under SYS5.3, apparently you must be root (as stated in
the man page), even you mount an nfs file system, instead under bsd4.3 you
can mount, at least nfs file systems, without being root.
Is that a 'feature' or what ?
If we agree that mount is dangerous for security, then it must only work for
root, otherwise should be open to anyone, independently of the environment
you are running in. Any idea/comment/explanation ?

Achille Petrilli
Cray & PWS Operations