Re: Restricting automounting of uncommon filesystems?

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On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 11:08 AM Eric Sandeen <esandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 7/22/23 9:12 AM, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 22, 2023 at 9:53 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> * Matthew Garrett:
> >>
> >>> a) Does this seem like a good idea?
> >>> b) If so, is dealing with it via udev rules the right approach? This way
> >>> seems desktop-agnostic
> >>> c) Where should it ship, and what should the process be for disabling it
> >>> for people who need this functionality?
> >>
> >> Maybe a first step would be to disable automounting while the screen is
> >> locked.
> >>
> >>> Long-term I'd love to see more work put into having FUSE support for
> >>> these and leaving the in-kernel fs to stuff we know is trustworthy, but
> >>> that's rather more work.
> >>
> >> Fedora moved in the opposite direction (from gvfs to unprivileged
> >> mounting via udisks2 IIRC).
> >>
> >
> > Several years ago, SUSE distributions moved to disabling the modules
> > by default for a number of filesystems, but making it pretty easy to
> > turn them back on:
> > https://github.com/openSUSE/suse-module-tools/pull/5
>
> That's approaching it from the wrong angle, IMHO. It's not that you
> don't want to be able to mount these filesytems at all, it's that you
> don't want let any random unprivileged user do so.
>
> If the system administrator wants to mount $UNCOMMONFS, they should be
> able to do so without hassle, but that doesn't mean that a normal user
> who got handed a sketchy USB stick at a conference should be able to do
> so with no restrictions at all.
>

So then some kind of configuration to udisks2 to have a similar effect?



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