On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Steve Borho wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 01:35:36PM -0400, rpjday wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Steve Borho wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > this still doesn't answer the question. the option "user" makes
> > the filesystem mountable by regular users. so how is the option
> > "owner" different?
>
> from the mount man page:
>
> Thus, given a line
> /dev/cdrom /cd iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide
> any user can mount the iso9660 file system found on his
> CDROM using the command
> mount /dev/cdrom
> or
> mount /cd
> For more details, see fstab(5). Only the user that
> mounted a filesystem can unmount it again. If any user
> should be able to unmount, then use users instead of user
> in the fstab line. The owner option is similar to the
> user option, with the restriction that the user must be
> the owner of the special file. This may be useful e.g. for
> /dev/fd if a login script makes the console user owner of
> this device.
dang. i could have *sworn* i grep'ed the man page for the word
"owner." sigh.
rday
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