Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Apr 1999 23:38:40 -0700 (PDT) | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: Updates to autofs |
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On 12-Apr-99 Peter Benie wrote: > The mount options for /net should be more restrictive, and soft mounts > should never be encouraged: > > $key could do with a more checking too. You should force $key to be a > hostname (see the DNS RFC for the set of valid characters), and you > should throw away hostnames beginning with "-". This will avoid $key > being passed to showmount as an option or to sed with an extra "|". > > Also, you should throw away any entry from showmount that contains the > string "/../" or fails to have a leading '/'.
Yes, I agree with you. auto.net was never intented to be anything more than a placeholder. It should also work out whether to make it a ro or rw mount, depending on what the server says.
What's your problem with soft mounts?
J
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