Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : --BwCQnh7xodEAoBMC : Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii : Content-Disposition: inline : Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
: On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 07:57:33AM -0500, W. Paul Mills wrote: :> Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :>=20 :>=20 :> : I'm not sure about mount, but it seems to need root permission to be :> : able to tell the kernel to mount/umount a filesystem (if i understand :> : these sources correctly... ;) :>=20 :>=20 :> Unless you give user access in /etc/fstab. : It looks to me like the kernel mount functions require root permissions : (actually, it requires a particular capability, but...). The user option : in /etc/fstab just tells the mount utility to proceed with the system : call (as root, because it's suid) even if it wasn't run by root. Agreed. -- *********************** Running Debian Linux *********************** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish... John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills * Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. * * EMAIL= [EMAIL PROTECTED] * WWW= http://Mills-USA.com/ * * Bill, I was there several years ago, why would I want to go back? * ************* pgp public key on keyservers everywhere? *************/ --
