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Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 19:26:05 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Arthur Alacar <art@pili.adn.edu.ph>
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Subject: Re: mount permission 
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On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Arthur Alacar wrote:

> 
> 
> How can i implement restriction for mount such that only superuser
> can mount any filesystem... am working with 2.2.5-RELEASE.
> 
> if am not mistaken in 2.2.2-RELEASE we have this kind of access, 
> not allowing an ordinary user (non-root) to mount a filesystem.
> what happened?

I wasn't aware that those permissions changed.  Verify your perms on
/sbin/mount* and the target devices.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major