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by **Dr. Ralph P. Sob** » Sat, 12 Oct 1996 04:00:00

Thanks to all that answered! Floppies are not autodetected like CDs.
Under Solaris 2.x one must simply run `volcheck' before accessing the
floppy drive. Any user can run it!

Then vold will mount it something like:

/vol/dev/diskette0/unnamed_floppy
713 635 78 90% /floppy/unnamed_floppy

By the way, one person said that there was a CERT advisory that
recommended disabling the floppy drive in vold.conf anyway.

Thanks again,

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Dr. Ralph P. Sobek Disclaimer: The above ruminations are my own.

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by **Martin Hargreav** » Fri, 18 Oct 1996 04:00:00

Quote:>By the way, one person said that there was a CERT advisory that
>recommended disabling the floppy drive in vold.conf anyway.

I believe there was an advisory for an older copy of Solaris, in which
vold didn't mount media nosuid, so it was possible to create a CD (or
floppy, I'm not sure if floppies were mentioned) with a setuid shell
on it, and mount it as a normal user, thus allowing you to become root
just by having physical access to the box. I'm not sure but I think
that was for 2.3

M.

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