On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote:
> IA>> /dev/sda1 /mnt/DOS_sda1 vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0
> IA>> /dev/sda5 /mnt/DOS_sda5 vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0
>
> Why isn't it noexec,nodev,nosuid? Do somebody really goes to run Linux
> binaries from DOS partition? To store devices there? I don't know if it is
> possible to doctor VFAT tables so that Linux will parse it as SUID or
> device, but I won't risk this...
I'm pretty sure you can't either, so I didn't bother. I'd never mount
vfat on a server or a firewall, so I didn't give it much thought, since
it's only a little workstation (behind a firewall)
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