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- In article <uf91ejetku.fsf@ftp.ardi.com> Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com> writes:
- < Jeff> I know that for other well-defined Linux filesystems such as
- < Jeff> ext2, dos, minix etc, you can use the 'mount' command or
- < Jeff> 'fstab' file to define mounting permissions. Is there a way
- < Jeff> to do this for mac disks to allow them to be user
- < Jeff> mountable/readable/writable by executor?
- <
- < No, you can't use mount or fstab to help you out here. You can change
- < the ownership and/or permissions on /dev/sdb although that can be a
- < bit of a security hole.
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- That does seem to be a bit of a security hole. It also at least to me
- seems to be somewhat kludgy. File system access permissions shouldn't
- be defined at the /dev/<device> level. (That's why we have
- mount... :.)
- Will there be a better solution in the future?
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- Jeff
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