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Date:      Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:43:05 +0200
From:      Zbigniew Komarnicki <cblasius@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mount_ntfs as normal user
Message-ID:  <200709131543.06172.cblasius@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200709131213.46496.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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On Thursday 13 of September 2007 12:13:46 Mel wrote:
> Well, that kills that. Only thing I could think of is setuid mount_ntfs.
> It's really weird, cause I can't get ntfs to mount under normal userid even
> with correct permissions. What you can do shouldn't be possible for 2 or 3
> reasons. I wonder if it's just ntfs, can you mount another partition as
> normal user? Like, unmount /usr and remount as normal user or if you have a
> less busy partition like /data or whatever.

Yes, this is only for ntfs. 
For ufs or msdosfs partitions (slices) it is not posible. 
Only ntfs I can mount and unmount as normal user.

What I should to do with ntfs_mount? Remove the setuid?

Thank hou very much Mel.



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