Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 13:34:14 +1000 (EST) From: Steven Goodwin <steve@cit.gu.edu.au> To: Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org> Cc: Questions FreeBSD <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: mount nfs as user, not root Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1020611132752.12618B-100000@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <1023756318.47009.14.camel@chip.wiegand.org>
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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
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