Re: [aclug-L] king of the MOUNTain

[Bob Deep <bobd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jesse Kaufman wrote:
> 
> 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...
> 
You could make your app set uid root.. Then it will run as "root" no
matter who runs it.  This is a security risk though... (I'm assuming the
dockapp is *not* a script but a standalone executable..)

Another approach is to make mount and umount set uid root...

You could use "sudo" to grant specific users the rights to become root
to run specific commands...

Etc..

All the above aproaches, have risks for security...  Consider them
carefuly for your machine.

> 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

It's just the fstab entry for the /proc file system...  That file system
just has information about your running processes and such, but it does
not take any disk space..  It's really just a "view" of the Kernel
process information made to look like a file system.  Have a look at it
when you have a chance... Kinda nice at times.

-= bob =-
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