On Thursday 17 April 2008, Karel Zak wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 03:23:29PM +0400, Alexey Gladkov wrote: > > This is openwall linux patch to restrict /etc/mtab permissions. > > Why do you need any extra restriction? i'm guessing he's using passwords in the extended options field and doesnt want people reading it. this would be broken anyways for mount invocations via the cmdline, and unless you also change the default permissions for /etc/fstab ... > I really don't want to change /etc/mtab permissions. From my point > of view this change is regression. Many other programs or scripts > read this file. i'd have to agree -mike
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