Re: [SLE] Mount & users

Kester Clegg wrote:

I seem to have a distant recollection that user <> users in the mount options bit in fstab, with the latter letting all users mount?

Yes. that is correct. There are so many ways to shoot your foot off. ;-( I had *serious trouble* mounting, although it said "user" in fstab. The reason was mount wasn't SETUID. btw. "user" means that any user can mount (with that options od fstab) and that *this* user (or root) must unmount. "users" means the same, but *anybody* can umount. Again, all works as long mount and umount are SETUID Juergen

On Sunday, October 01, 2000 8:42 AM, juergen.braukmann@ruhr-west.de [SMTP:juergen.braukmann@ruhr-west.de] wrote:

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>> "Miguel" == Miguel Afonso Oliveira writes:

Miguel> Dear all, On my new SuSE 7.0 system whenever a user tries Miguel> to mount the cd or the floppy he gets a message saying Miguel> only root can mount things though I have edited /etc/fstab Miguel> to include the user option for both devices. What else do Miguel> I have to do?

Either change the permissions of the mount command or use su1.

for the above suggestion check, the setting of PERMISSION_SECURITY in rc.config. If ot is set to "secure" or "paranoid", mount will be not useable as user. You can edit /etc/permissions.local in the style of permissions.* to allow the use of mount.

Juergen

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