From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 2 14:05:12 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA18225 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 14:05:12 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA18214 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 14:05:06 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA26337 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 23:04:57 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA14004 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 23:04:56 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id WAA02982 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 22:21:03 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511022121.WAA02982@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Automounting CD-ROMs To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 22:21:02 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <9511021751.AA07623@gnu.mc.xerox.com> from "Marty Leisner" at Nov 2, 95 09:51:22 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1010 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Marty Leisner wrote: > > Linux has a concent of "user" mount, so any user can generate a > mount /cdrom command (if the entry for /cdrom is user). I know (and no, it hasn't been implemented in FreeBSD), but that's only one side of the coin. The story continues if it comes to NFS file systems, DOS file systems etc. They should be mounted if they are available at boot time, but they should or should not cause the autoboot to stop, depending on their importance for the system. The only one who can decide this is the local system administrator. That's why i think the fstab flag ``optional'' is the best thing to go. Making the mount command available for a regular user (depending on a flag in fstab) is another story. However, it's not an absolute requirement, since you can do this right now already e.g. with a setuid Perl script. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)