Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 17:53:54 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Non-root mounting of CD-ROMs Message-ID: <19991205175354.B696@marder-1>
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A thread on the UK User Group mailing list about non-root users
mounting CD-ROMs included posts from a couple of people running
-STABLE who could do this. I tried and it doesn't work for me. A
ktrace(1) showed the call to mount(2) returning EPERM, which is what I
would expect.
After several posts we established that the only differences we could
find between my setup and theirs is that I'm using a SCSI CD-ROM and
they both have IDE. Additionally, their systems were cvsup'd more
recently than mine (mine was around the end of September) and no-one
has made /sbin/mount* setuid.
A look through the CVS logs on the web-site shows that there have been
quite a few changes to mount in the last couple of months.
So, the question is, should a non-root user be able to mount a CD-ROM
(without making /sbin/mount* setuid)?
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