Re: Call for Foundation-supported Project Ideas

Great, thanks!

On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 3:00 PM Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org> wrote:

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> On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 2:11 PM Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <
> m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Another important problem is mounting of  hard disks connected through a
>> USB port or a hot-pluggable port .
>> Such connections ( excluding  if DOS or NTFS ones are permitted implicitly
>> ) require a "root" mount . There is an idea
>> "Use sudo or other super user programs for "allowance" of "root" user" .
>> In
>> my life , I never could understand
>> "How is it possible  to manage to protect the security of a system by
>> using
>> such a facility from the "user" space ? "
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>> Is it not possible to allow the user to use a mount command for such
>> non-DOS or non-NTFS devices ?
>> Why is it necessary to have a fear about such mounting ?
>> Please do NOT forget that the computer is available to the user
>> PHYSICALLY
>> . He ( let's assume he may use violence )
>> can destroy , crash , burn , ... ,  etc. , the computer PHYSICALLY . Such
>> a
>> possibility is not considered , but an innocent
>> "user" space mount is assumed to be harmful .
>>
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> This is usually solved by having a mounting daemon that runs as root and
> handles user requests for mounting volumes.
> Linux has udisks2 for this and we have sysutils/bsdisks
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