Re: rootfs exposure in /proc/mounts

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 12:18:56PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> And I also
> agree that mtab shouldn't be under /etc (this is the only file that needs to
> be written to). At least, it should be moved to /var/state or something like
> that, provided it's available early in the boot stage,

I was just looking at these things I found few more such files in
/etc.  Like /etc/adjtime, /etc/mrtg/<something> and /etc/.aumixrc.
I consider all of these user-space bugs.  There are also /etc/passwd
and /etc/shadow which will be written to if you are changing
passwords while not using something like NIS.  This is, in a sense,
a harder case but one can live with that.

   Michal