On Mon, Apr 29, 2002, Iftach Hyams wrote about "RE: a 'mount' question": > > >> The solution I suggested to Muli was > >> mv /home/baduser /root/.ssh/ > > This might get ugly if (reasonably) /root and /home are in different > file systems. > Mounting a null F.S. or chmod are better.
Some people didn't seem to understand: Muli said this was a *riddle* - it is not some real-life system administration problem he was facing. The "do it in one command" was the riddle's *rule*, and is not a constraint you'll normally see in real life. So saying "yes, but if I just added a second command it will be better..." is just plain cheating. As such, the chmod solution is not enough, and adding another chown, "ed '....' /etc/passwd" or anything like that would break the one-command rule. And what's a "null filesystem"? I don't recall Linux having this. Possible alternatives are mounting procfs on the user's home directory (this would be weird :)) or some small tmpfs. This is indeed a good solution. Of course my solution fails if /root and /home are on different partitions *AND* the /root partition doesn't have room for the baduser's home directory. But if other people were allowed to prepare in advance a filesystem filled with random stuff, I can ask to be prepared with a directory /home/.hide which is owned by root and has no permissions to others - then I'll move /home/baduser there, instead of /root/.ssh. -- Nadav Har'El | Monday, Apr 29 2002, 17 Iyyar 5762 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |Red meat is not bad for you: fuzzy green http://nadav.harel.org.il |meat is bad for you. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
