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From: Gerald Teschl <gerald.teschl@univie.ac.at>
Subject: Re: Re: autofs RFE
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 09:45:45 +0100
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To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Gerald Teschl wrote:
>
>>
>> The ideal solution would be to make the mount call as the user 
>> requesting
>> the mount, but if I understand you right, this is to complex to find 
>> out.
>>
>
> Absolutely not!  It would let a remote user "hijack" your media! 

No, because mount would not allow the command to succeed in this case
(otherwise the user could do an ordinary mount as well).

Gerald