https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=974
Product: mount
Component: mount
Summary: fat32 filesytem mounted as world-writable
Version: 2.11x-2mdk
Platform: Other
OS/Version: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This problem is seen in mandrake-9.0. This is not really a problem of mount but a
problem of the settings file /etc/fstab. Basically, its a configuration problem.
My windows (FAT32) partition is mounted as per the fstab entry:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
The value of umask(=0) makes many system files on the FAT32 partition writable by a
non-root linux user. This is very undesirable and risky. In the extreme case, a
well-designed linux virus can easily damage the windows system files !!
The proper solution to this is to change the umask value to 022 so that only root has
write access to the FAT32 system.
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