On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 02:32:55PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > Just to get this into the archives: ssh-host-config can certainly emit a > warning on non-system mounts, but having separate set of user mounts for > the SYSTEM user will also work just fine... In fact, that'd make it > possible to have a whole different /etc/passwd (and /etc/group) file > readable only to SYSTEM (via a user mount). Ugly, but workable... :-( > I'm by no means advocating the above setup, but I could think of some > situations where it might be useful (and it has come up a few times on > this list). > Igor
Still for the archives, the user mounts for SYSTEM are stored in the registry entry of the default user and can thus be picked up in a number of odd cases. For security reasons these entries shouldn't be writable by non-administrators (that seems to be the factory default). I don't think it's necessary for ssh-host-config to consider all cases, a user capable of setting user mounts for SYSTEM should be able to disregard a warning. Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
