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From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Re: RFC: Adding a ``user'' mount option
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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