[plug] cdrom mounting by itself while online

[Ari Finander]

It's never ever done that before.  I had deliberately umounted it
earlier.  The only thing I was doing was downloading and browsing web
pages.  When I get to the section on ipchains and configuring a
firewall, will that do anything to keep crackers out?  I didn't even
have a file manager window open, not that accidentally clicking on an
unmounted drive will mount it with my configuration.

Ari

Original message from: The Thought Assassin
<assassin at live.wasp.net.au>
>
>On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Ari Finander wrote:
>> Is it normal for a cdrom to mount by itself while you're online?
>
>I can't think of anything about being online that should make your
cdrom
>mount itself. If you have an automounter, then attempting to read a
>particular file or directory might do it. Perhaps a program or daemon
on
>your system was trying to read from your cdrom?
>
>The second most likely answer, however, is outside influence across
the
>net. (as you probably guessed) The most likely answer remains that
you
>mounted it and forgot you did it. :) Or that a program you ran
yourself
>needed it and mounted it. (did you install packages during that time,
and
>have a package archive on a cdrom registered on your system?)
>
>Has it ever mounted itself while you were offline?
>
>If it was a cracker, rest assured it's probably not a very good one,
if
>they mounted your drive and thus alerted you. ;)
>
>-Greg
>
>
>.
>


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