From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 29 20:29:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA06990 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 20:29:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from drifter.stratos.net (pm3-1-28.stratos.net [209.81.153.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA06979 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 20:29:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drifter@stratos.net) Received: from stratos.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by stratos.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA08706 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 00:17:15 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199801290517.AAA08706@stratos.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Mounting as non-root Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 00:17:15 -0500 From: Drifter Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" I just wanted to thank everyone who responded to my question about mounting disk devices as a non-root user. I guess the short of it is, it isn't possible unless I am willing to write a setuid program in C or perl. I got some example scripts which I will be working on as soon as I get the time. Thanks for your responses. -Drifter. -- drifter@stratos.nospam.net (remove nospam to send) "Ever notice that in every commercial about the Internet, advertising geniuses can't resist having a bunch of kids staring into a monitor, awe- struck, looking at a whale jumping out of the ocean? Or is it just me?"