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Date:      Thu, 6 Apr 2006 04:54:18 +1000
From:      Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        "Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com>
Cc:        babkin@users.sourceforge.net, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Re: RFC: Adding a ``user'' mount option
Message-ID:  <20060405185418.GJ699@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060405171429.GA3067@megan.kiwi-computer.com>
References:  <21929145.3307121144162800285.JavaMail.root@vms172.mailsrvcs.net> <20060405171429.GA3067@megan.kiwi-computer.com>

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On Wed, 2006-Apr-05 12:14:29 -0500, Rick C. Petty wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 10:00:00AM -0500, Sergey Babkin wrote:
>> 
>> Would it make sense to be able to specify a group in fstab?
>> Then the users can be simply given membership of this
>> group to mount the devices.
>
>Why not just assume allowable users are in the "operator" group.  Isn't
>this what that group was designed for?

That group was designed for people who ran backups - it's hard-coded in
dump(8).

>If not operator, then maybe one configurable group, defaulting to operator.

Sounds like a good idea.

-- 
Peter Jeremy



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