Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 14:27:57 +0200 From: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl> To: Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.in-berlin.de> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: RFC: Adding a ``user'' mount option Message-ID: <20060406122757.GA1124@stack.nl> In-Reply-To: <20060404114547.GA1613@dice.stsp.lan> References: <1144042356.824.16.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <4430BA79.2030403@freebsd.org> <44316387.1090609@FreeBSD.org> <44321277.7040904@FreeBSD.org> <1144133238.9725.32.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20060404114547.GA1613@dice.stsp.lan>
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On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 01:45:47PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote: > Why do GNOME/KDE rely on /etc/fstab on FreeBSD? > What are admins supposed to do on systems with more than, say, a hundred > users. Having to add a line to /etc/fstab for every user is of course > scriptable, but that does not make it less insane. > As far as I got it, the current design boils down to the user creating > a mount point, and then mounting the media "manually", e.g. > mount /dev/cd0 ~/cdrom. Granted the admin has set vfs.usermount to 1, > of course. I don't really think that user mount has been designed > with /etc/fstab in mind. Consider chown(8)ing the mount points to the current user on login (and root on logout) (using DisplayManager._0.startup and DisplayManager._0.reset or similar). I do this on a few multiuser boxes (at most 5 users per box though) and all users can use the same /etc/fstab lines. The mount will only work for the locally logged in user, which may be considered a bug or a feature ;-) -- Jilles Tjoelker
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