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Re:OS X/Linker: New Mac malware attempts zero-day Gatekeeper... by jonnycomputer on Friday June 28, 2019 @10:04AM (#20304373)
what are the implications of making this change to auto_master, beyond risk mitigation (i.e. to everyday use)?
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Re:OS X/Linker: New Mac malware attempts zero-day Gatekeeper... by kekebo on Friday June 28, 2019 @11:59AM (#20305680)
Cavallarin explains it in a bit more detail on his blog[1]:

The first legit feature is automount (aka autofs) that allows a user to automatically mount a network share just by accessing a "special" path, in this case, any path beginning with "/net/". [..]

[1] https://www.fcvl.net/vulnerabilities/macosx-gatekeeper-bypas...

Assumably commenting out the line quoted by gp disables automount for network shares which start with "/net" in their path.

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Re:OS X/Linker: New Mac malware attempts zero-day Gatekeeper... by wool_gather on Friday June 28, 2019 @11:06AM (#20305025)
I am wondering this too. I see that `man auto_master` describes the purpose and format of the file, but I'm still trying to grok it.
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