Re: The ext3 way of journalling

From: Bodo Eggert
Date: Fri Jan 11 2008 - 20:41:35 EST


On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 05:22:45PM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote:

> > What can happen if someone does tune2fs -Lroot /dev/usbstick
> > and puts that stick into this system?
>
> Don't know. I use UUIDs rather than LABELs. Having duplicated labels
> just means being careless. Having duplicate UUIDs should require being
> malicous.

That's exactly what you have to assume for your users. Otherwise, you could
remove any security feature from the system.
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