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Date:      Wed, 11 Aug 1999 13:56:23 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
To:        Cillian Sharkey <cillian@baker.ie>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: users mounting filesystems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908111348200.2373-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
In-Reply-To: <37B15C30.E1A22669@baker.ie>

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On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Cillian Sharkey wrote:

> I've seen this come up before in the mailing lists:
> is there a way to give users the ability to mount filesystems
>=20
> AFAIK in Linux one can add the "user" mount option in /etc/fstab
> and any user can then mount that filesystem (not until I put in the
> nosuid,nodev,noexec,etc.. options to limit their use)
>=20
> I'm aware it's a potential security risk, but is there any clean
> way of giving a user the ability to mount an msdos floppy for example..
>=20
> in the previous discussions, amd, sudo and some other methods were
> offered..

I use sudo to give some experienced users (e.g. username expert) the
ability to mount/umount. For convenience, I set aliases in /etc/profile
and /etc/csh.login:

if [ "$USER" =3D expert ]; then
  alias mount=3D'/usr/local/bin/sudo /sbin/mount'
  alias umount=3D'/usr/local/bin/sudo /sbin/umount'
fi

Or:

if ( "$user" =3D=3D expert ) then
  alias mount=09/usr/local/bin/sudo /sbin/mount
  alias umount=09/usr/local/bin/sudo /sbin/umount
endif

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