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j mckitrick writes:
> Is it really necessary to chown the mountpoints for every boot to allow
> non-users to mount/umount floppies and zips?  It seems silly.

How does a non-user go about issuing a mount command? :-).

Assuming you meant non-root-users, you don't want to let them mount on
things they don't own - the security implications are a nightmare.

However, the ownership shouldn't be changing across boots. Can you
provide more details?

	<mike






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