Automount is Disabled on VMware Backup Proxy

Challenge The Windows OS of a VMware Backup Proxy reports that automatic mounting of new volumes is disabled. Solution The automatic mounting of new volumes being disabled is an expected outcome for VMware Backup Proxies. As documented in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide: For Microsoft...

Fedora Update for autofs FEDORA-2007-4532

Check for the Version of autofs OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for autofs FEDORA-2007-4532 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the term...

MDKA-2006:065 : hal

A bug in partition detection for some SD/MMC card readers those using the sdhci driver was preventing correct detection by HAL, breaking automatic mounting/unmounting on card insertion/removal. Another bug was preventing correct mounting of LUKS-encrypted removable media. This update fixes these...

USN-184-1: umount vulnerability

David Watson discovered that "umount -r" removed some restrictive mount options like the "nosuid" flag. If /etc/fstab contains user-mountable removable devices which specify the "nosuid" flag which is common practice for such devices, a local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary...