what is pamconsole

mudda_steven · 03-04-2005, 02:09 PM

Iam a student pursuiting IT-Btech in IIITM-Gwalior India
We have only linux in our college
Fedora Core 3 is installed in our lab
we(students) have seperate login accounts
we have our accounts on the server

the cdrom and removable hard disk are mounted automatically

i dontunderstand the line
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto
pamconsole,fscontext=system_u

bject_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

in the /e

i dont understand the line /etc/fstab file

ould anyone explain in detail the use of pamconsole and fcontext=system_u

PTrenholme · 03-04-2005, 03:18 PM

A quick search using "google" found this:

Quote:

From http://lists.freedesktop.org/piperma...er/001149.html
The 'pamconsole' option is a bit more Red Hat specific insofar that it's
like 'user' but requires the user to be at the console (which I believe
is a RH-ism). The patch is quite new, we did that to close a security
issue with allowing any user to mount a filesystem.

(Imagine someone breaking into your http server which runs as nobody -
they shouldn't be able to access your removable file systems. Another
issue is that you don't want to give, say, your friend with an SSH
account access to your external disks.)

mudda_steven · 03-05-2005, 07:10 AM

Thank u very much for ur reply