On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 05:45:47 +0000
Dom <to...@rpdom.net> wrote:
> On 02/02/11 04:28, bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I've got udev and automount working very nicely, EXCEPT,
> > regular users can't umount the mounted device.
> >
> > the strangest thing is that I'm sure I had it working at some point
> > such that regular users COULD umount.
> >
> > The fstab has the user keyword in it.
> >
> > Strangely passing user in the automount mount options doesn't seem
> > to help.
> >
> > Any ideas ?
> >
>
> Have you tried putting "users" instead of "user" in the fstab or
> automount options?
>
> This means any user can unmount the filesystem, not just the one who
> mounted it.
you are, of course, correct.
Nothing like having egg on your face archived in the mailing list for
all time :-(
Just to be maximally confusing there is a user AND users keyword.
user Allow an ordinary user to mount the filesystem. The name of the
mounting user is written to mtab so that he can
unmount the filesystem again. This option implies
the options noexec, nosuid, and nodev (unless
overridden by subsequent options, as in the option line
user,exec,dev,suid).
users Allow every user to mount and unmount the filesystem. This
option implies the options noexec, nosuid, and nodev
(unless overridden by subsequent options, as in the option line
users,exec,dev,suid).
I think I see the difference. The problem is that when automount
mounts the file I'm not the user who did it, so the user option doesn't
work. users however allows me to umount a filesystem I did NOT mount.
Thank you,
Brian
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