On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > Well, if you're running it as a kernel module then obviously you need root > > permissions to load it. If it's running as a userland process, then > > there's no reason why you can't run it as a user. mount presumably > > wouldn't care as long as you had access rights to the underlying objects > > (mountpoint + stacking layer process). > > well, you'll have to tell me more. (i have to get my freebsd source tree > back :-) ) > > Are you saying that as an ordinary user I can mount something on top of > /tmp, for example?
If the vfs.usermount sysctl is 1, and you have appropriate access to the thing you're trying to mount (block device, etc). > Is the suser() check still in the mount system call?
