From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 10 20:34:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.gu.edu.au (kraken.itc.gu.edu.au [132.234.250.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC05D37B405 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 20:34:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kurango.cit.gu.edu.au (daemon@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au [132.234.86.1]) by mailhost.gu.edu.au (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id g5B3YJE15378; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 13:34:20 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost (steve@localhost) by kurango.cit.gu.edu.au (8.12.2/8.12.2) with SMTP id g5B3YEgs014443; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 13:34:15 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 13:34:14 +1000 (EST) From: Steven Goodwin To: Chip Wiegand Cc: Questions FreeBSD Subject: Re: mount nfs as user, not root In-Reply-To: <1023756318.47009.14.camel@chip.wiegand.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You could try sudo (/usr/ports/security/sudo) to mount the nfs filesystem using your user account (although sudo actually does mount it using root permissions). On 10 Jun 2002, Chip Wiegand wrote: > Is it possible to mount a nfs mountpoint on my regular user account, > rather than on the root account? I changed the permissions on the mount > point accordingly, but it still fails - > > nfs: can't update /var/db/mounttab for 192.168.1.14:/usr > nfs: /usr/apache: Operation not permitted > > I'm not concerned with security issues, this is my home pc's I am > working on. > > Regards, > Chip W. > www.wiegand.org > chip@wiegand.org > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message