From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 3 14:36:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97A8037B619 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 14:36:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@earthlink.net) Received: from dialin-client.earthlink.net (pool1042.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.254.22]) by merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA02874; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 14:36:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by dialin-client.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA00986; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 14:34:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 14:34:52 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Harry Putnam Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fstab mount options Message-ID: <20000703143451.G433@dialin-client.earthlink.net> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from reader@newsguy.com on Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 02:10:32PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 02:10:32PM -0700, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Is there no possibility of allowing users to mount filesystems, other > than sudo or similar? Yes and no. No, there is no builtin capability to allow non-root users to use mount(8). Yes, there are other ways than sudo. Personally, I think a very short, very securely written, setuid, wrapper program to call mount would make sense. > `man fstab' `man mount' seems to indicate no `user' mount options. Well, 'mount_msdos' has a 'user' option but it means something else. If you want mortal users to mount MSDOS floppies, tho', you may want to use it. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message