rpjday wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Steve Borho wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 01:00:15PM -0400, rpjday wrote:
> > > On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Steve Feehan wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I believe it is similar to the 'user' option except that the
> > > > user must be the owner of the device in order to mount it.
> > >
> > > nope, that doesn't seem to be right. as a user, i can mount
> > > /dev/cdrom, although it is owned by root.root. besides, that
> > > would negate some of the functionality of the "user" option.
> >
> > mount/unmounting drives requires root access (since you're modifying
> > important filesystem tables).
> >
> > Since /bin/mount is setuid root, it can allow normal users to mount
> > some drives if it is configured to.
>
> this still doesn't answer the question. the option "user" makes
> the filesystem mountable by regular users. so how is the option
> "owner" different?
>
> rday
>From man mount
The owner option is similar to the user option, with the restriction
that the user must be the owner
of the special file. This may be useful e.g. for /dev/fd if a
login script makes the console user
owner of this device.
Hope this helps.
Bret
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