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> Reply-To: achille@cernvax.UUCP () Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland Lines: 12 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