Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!gatech!ukma!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Mounting floppies Message-ID: <2371@ficc.uu.net> Date: 5 Dec 88 16:53:52 GMT References: <129@minya.UUCP> <8800002@gistdev> <5682@louie.udel.EDU> <13202@ncoast.UUCP> Organization: SCADA Lines: 9 Since you have to diddle with the system anyway, why not just ignore setuid bits and device special files on floppies not mounted by root? This is the logical solution to the problem... just get namei() and stat() in a conspiracy along with whatever other system calls are needed to make it work (open, exec, mount, etc...). -- Peter da Silva `-_-' Ferranti International Controls Corporation "Have you hugged U your wolf today?" uunet.uu.net!ficc!peter Disclaimer: I accept full responsibility for my typos. peter@ficc.uu.net