> Yes, except that GUI _anything_ involves a bunch of libraries that never
> were audited with suid-root in mind. And the main activity of said
> libraries is dealing with user-controlled input... I dearly hope that
> this GUI mount actually calls mount(8) - assuming the authors' sanity it's
> the only reasonable variant, but that's a heck of undemonstrated
> assumption...
The GUI ones I have seen use mount(8) and its existing user mount stuff. I've
not seen any that are setuid. Even modern xdm clones and xterm replacements
are not setuid/setgid
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