Re: Updates to autofs

Peter Benie (pjb1008@cam.ac.uk)
Mon, 12 Apr 1999 02:06:26 +0100


Jeremy Fitzhardinge writes ("Updates to autofs"):
>
> I've been using this code for a while now and it seems stable, but it is quite
> new so there could still be problems. Tell me how it works for you, bug
> reports, comments, suggestions, etc.

The mount options for /net should be more restrictive, and soft mounts
should never be encouraged:

--- autofs-3.1.3-jsgf-990410/samples/auto.net~ Sun Apr 4 22:25:28 1999
+++ autofs-3.1.3-jsgf-990410/samples/auto.net Sun Apr 11 23:30:52 1999
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@
# each filesystem, or whether its RO or RW. For the future...

key="$1"
-opts="-fstype=nfs,soft,intr"
+opts="-fstype=nfs,hard,intr,nosuid,nodev"

showmount -e "$key" | tail +2 | sort | sed -e "s|^\([^ ]*\).*|$key\1 $opts $key:\1|"

$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 '/'.

Peter

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