Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 13:19:24 -0500 (EST) From: Will Andrews <andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM> To: Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Non-root mounting of CD-ROMs Message-ID: <XFMail.991205131924.andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM> In-Reply-To: <19991205175354.B696@marder-1>
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On 05-Dec-99 Mark Ovens wrote: > A thread on the UK User Group mailing list about non-root users > mounting CD-ROMs included posts from a couple of people running > -STABLE who could do this. I tried and it doesn't work for me. A > ktrace(1) showed the call to mount(2) returning EPERM, which is what I > would expect. > > After several posts we established that the only differences we could > find between my setup and theirs is that I'm using a SCSI CD-ROM and > they both have IDE. Additionally, their systems were cvsup'd more > recently than mine (mine was around the end of September) and no-one > has made /sbin/mount* setuid. > > A look through the CVS logs on the web-site shows that there have been > quite a few changes to mount in the last couple of months. > > So, the question is, should a non-root user be able to mount a CD-ROM > (without making /sbin/mount* setuid)? sudo? -- Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> GCS/E/S @d- s+:+>+:- a--->+++ C++ UB++++ P+ L- E--- W+++ !N !o ?K w--- ?O M+ V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X++ R+ tv+ b++>++++ DI+++ D+ G++>+++ e->++++ h! r-->+++ y? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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