Comment 30 for bug 13131

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 12:23:12 -0800
From: Tyler MacDonald <email address hidden>
To: Justin Pryzby <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#296201: mount: unprivileged user can mount partition without updating mtab

Justin Pryzby <email address hidden> wrote:
> Indeed, I heard you the first two times, as, I suspect, did the other
> 83 people on the -rc ML.
>
> It is sometimes difficult to describe all the conditions leading up to
> a problem, so we appreciate your patience.

 Having to repeat things a few times is a small price to pay for
software perfection. :)

> I have guessed that your /etc/mtab is a file, and not a symlink;
> indeed, many people, myself included, have mtab => /proc/mounts, and
> this bug almost certainly depends on mount detecting that mtab is a
> regular file and not a symlink.
>
> Could you confirm that your mtab is a regular file?

 It is.

$ ls -l /etc/mtab
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 436 2005-02-21 22:25 /etc/mtab

 - Tyler