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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
Message-ID:  <19980105065531.43517@ct.picker.com>
In-Reply-To: <19971224101553.22636@lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Wed, Dec 24, 1997 at 10:15:53AM %2B1030
References:  <6150EE893AC3D011A3360020AFF799985F17@INETSERVER> <19971224101553.22636@lemis.com>

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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



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