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Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 06:55:31 -0500
From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>
To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: mount command
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Greg Lehey:
 |On Tue, Dec 23, 1997 at 04:20:44PM -0500, Rick Siple wrote:
 |> Quick question,  (aren't they all...)
 |
 |No.
 |
 |> 	Is the mount command a privileged operation?  (i.e.  must the
 |> use be root to execute it?)
 |
 |Yes.

On a related question, why is it that mount_msdos won't run set-uid root,
but mount_ufs does?

Randall