Re: [aclug-L] king of the MOUNTain

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It looks like you're close to it anyway; your /dev/fd0 and /dev/cdrom lines
seem to be correct.  Have you tried using mount at the command line as a
normal user to see if it works?  FYI, the mount(8) manpage says:

       (iii) Normally, only the superuser can mount file systems.
       However, when fstab contains the user option  on  a  line,
       then anybody can mount the corresponding system.

       Thus, given a line
              /dev/cdrom  /cd  iso9660  ro,user,noauto,unhide
       any  user  can  mount the iso9660 file system found on his
       CDROM using the command
              mount /dev/cdrom
       or
              mount /cd
       For more details, see fstab(5).

I would additionally recommend the nodev and nosuid options.

Also, it may be necessary for the user to have access to the mountpoint; I'm
not sure, but it's something to check.

On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 08:41:22AM +0000, Jesse Kaufman wrote:

> ok, dumb subject, but i got your attention...
> 
> how do i make a specific user (say...me!) have rights to mount stuff...
> i've got a kewl WM dockapp that will allow mounting at a click of a
> button, but i cannot seem to give myself rights to mount...
> 
> also, what does the last entry in the attached fstab file mean?
> 
> jesse

> /dev/hdb1               /                 ext2    defaults                 1 1
> /dev/hda1               /home             ext2    defaults                 1 2
> /dev/hdb5               Swap000           swap    defaults                 0 0
> /dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy       ext2    noauto,user,unhide       0 0
> /dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom        iso9660 noauto,user,ro,unhide    0 0
> none                    /proc             proc    defaults                 0 0


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