On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 01:00:15PM -0400, rpjday wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Steve Feehan wrote:
> >
> > I believe it is similar to the 'user' option except that the
> > user must be the owner of the device in order to mount it.
>
> nope, that doesn't seem to be right. as a user, i can mount
> /dev/cdrom, although it is owned by root.root. besides, that
> would negate some of the functionality of the "user" option.
mount/unmounting drives requires root access (since you're modifying
important filesystem tables).
Since /bin/mount is setuid root, it can allow normal users to mount
some drives if it is configured to.
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