Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 18:08:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> To: Cillian Sharkey <cillian@baker.ie> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: users mounting filesystems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908111804460.2945-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <37B18001.D2A1881@baker.ie>
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On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Cillian Sharkey wrote: > > > 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.. > > > > I use sudo to give some experienced users (e.g. username expert) the > > ability to mount/umount. For convenience, I set aliases in /etc/profile > > and /etc/csh.login: > > > > if [ "$USER" = expert ]; then > > alias mount='/usr/local/bin/sudo /sbin/mount' > > alias umount='/usr/local/bin/sudo /sbin/umount' > > fi > > Hmm..doing this means that they have access to mount/unmount > any filesystem they want to (plus override any options in /etc/fstab), > which is not what I want when they only need to be able to mount a msdos > floppy disk for example.. > > ..as I mentioned above, Linux has a "user" mount option which can be > used > on specified filesystems in /etc/fstab, perhaps BSD could have something > similar or is there a better way to do this ? Hmm if you don't want the user to give the right to mount/umount everything sudo may not do well. Alternatively, you might chmod 4755 /sbin/mount_msdos (if not set so by default) to make any user call mount_msdos /dev/fd0 ~/users_own_dir. Regards // // Konrad Heuer ____ ___ _______ // Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ // Datenverarbeitung mbH GÖttingen / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / // Am Faßberg, D-37077 GÖttingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___/____/ // Deutschland (Germany) ----- The Power to Serve ----- // http://www.freebsd.org // kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de // To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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