Michal Jaegermann wrote:
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:44:41PM -0400, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
On boot, gnome mounts every partition I have on /media on my rawhide
test system. How do I get it to stop?
See painstakingly ignored security bug
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=251062
It's bizarre that that hasn't been fixed.
I was horrified to find my NTFS partitions mounted rw, I didn't pursue
it because I had other things on my mind.
I don't trust Linux to write to NTFS, and I won't until I have a
throw-away filesystem _and_ have verified it myself. Even then, I won't
trust it much.
As for logging in as root, I can, and the extent to which it represents
a security hazard depends on context and circumstances _I_ know with
regard to my systems, but you folk don't. In the particular case where I
found my NTFS filesystems mounted rw, I was running bleeding-edge, and
had my rawhide system harmed itself, well that's the risk, but willfully
exposing my Windows filesystems to increased risk by mounting them, not
just ro but _rw_ is just not acceptable.
The software suppliers' role in this is to make their software as safe
as they can, even when used by root, and provide the tools users need
while not getting in their way.
Mounting filesystems just because you can is unsafe; prohibiting users
from logging in as root is getting in the way.
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Cheers
John
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