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Date:      Thu, 12 Aug 1999 00:21:34 +0930 (CST)
From:      Greg Lewis <glewis@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        Cillian Sharkey <cillian@baker.ie>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: users mounting filesystems
Message-ID:  <199908111451.AAA83961@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <37B15C30.E1A22669@baker.ie> from Cillian Sharkey at "Aug 11, 1999 12:19:12 pm"

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> I've seen this come up before in the mailing lists:
> is there a way to give users the ability to mount filesystems
> 
> 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)
> 
> 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..
> 
> in the previous discussions, amd, sudo and some other methods were
> offered..
> 
> - Cillian

Although I've never used it, amd would appear to be a good answer as it all
happens transparently from the user point of view (is this not a good
option for you for some reason?).  If its just in terms of mounting
floppies you can just use mtools and nobody has to mount a thing :).

-- 
Greg Lewis 				glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au
Computing Officer			+61 8 8303 5083
Teletraffic Research Centre


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