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Re: Permission policy



On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 09:39:41PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Mar 16, Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> wrote:
>  >Which is a waste of effort if the user can create a sgid shell.
> Do you really mount user-writeable directories without the "nosuid"
> option?

1. Depends on the environment. Unfortunately, nosuid isn't guaranteed to
work in all cases (e.g., sperl). 

2. The point was that the "auto group" function isn't a magic bullet and
needs to be evaluated in context. In some cases it might make more sense
to have a world-writable audio device than to play games with groups.

-- 
Mike Stone

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