rpjday wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Steve Feehan wrote:
>
> > rpjday wrote:
> > >
> > > the man page for the "mount" command says nothing about
> > > the "owner" option, which shows up in /etc/fstab for, in
> > > my case, /dev/cdrom and /dev/fd0.
> > >
> > > what does this mean? originally, i thought it meant that
> > > the files under that mount would be effectively owned by
> > > the person who did the mount, but this is clearly not true.
> > >
> > > what does it mean, and why is it kept such a secret?
> > >
> > > rday
> > >
> >
> > 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.
>
> rday
I missed this thread since I was on vacation, but if you look
at the device file that /dev/cdrom ( a symlink ) points to it
is owned by the user logged in at the console. The symlink
may be owned by root, but taht is irrelevant.
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