Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 00:21:34 +0930 (CST) From: Greg Lewis <glewis@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> To: Cillian Sharkey <cillian@baker.ie> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: users mounting filesystems Message-ID: <199908111451.AAA83961@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <37B15C30.E1A22669@baker.ie> from Cillian Sharkey at "Aug 11, 1999 12:19:12 pm"
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> I've seen this come up before in the mailing lists: > is there a way to give users the ability to mount filesystems > > AFAIK in Linux one can add the "user" mount option in /etc/fstab > and any user can then mount that filesystem (not until I put in the > nosuid,nodev,noexec,etc.. options to limit their use) > > I'm aware it's a potential security risk, but is there any clean > way of giving a user the ability to mount an msdos floppy for example.. > > in the previous discussions, amd, sudo and some other methods were > offered.. > > - Cillian Although I've never used it, amd would appear to be a good answer as it all happens transparently from the user point of view (is this not a good option for you for some reason?). If its just in terms of mounting floppies you can just use mtools and nobody has to mount a thing :). -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 5083 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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