A question about one option of mount_cdfs

[Wang,MinJie]

Hi all
I consulted the man page of mount_cdfs and found that there is a parameter can follow the option "-o". The parameter is "nosuid". According to the manpage it's used to "Do not allow set-user-ID execution" and I don't get it.
Can you give me any advice?
Thx in advance

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

It denies the user to set the user id.

Without this protection you can have a nasty peice of code execute setting the user id to root.

This would be bad,violating basic security.

SEP

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
if you want to have a bit of background on setting setuid (not just NFS mounted):
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=790229

[perumal_2]

Hi

What do you mean by "I don't get it"
mount -F cdfs -o nosuid /dev/dsk/c0t0td0 /cdrom
By using the above command did it throw any error?.

FYI: suid will be more intersting for individaul executable files which runs the privilege of the owner than the process creator.
TQ
Perumal