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Re: Security and 7/24 connections

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Russell Krywolt (krywolt@asimov.celestine.com)
Fri, 15 Jan 1999 14:10:21 -0800 (PST)

On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Dave Michelson wrote:

> Well, even mounting/unmounting removable media requires root privileges
> the last time I looked.

You can mount any filesystems as a user providing the user option is set
in the fstab....from man 8 mount

       (iii) Normally, only the superuser can mount file systems.
       However, when fstab contains the user option on a line,
       then anybody can mount the corresponding system.

       Thus, given a line
              /dev/cdrom /cd iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide
       any user can mount the iso9660 file system found on his
       CDROM using the command
              mount /dev/cdrom
       or
              mount /cd

                Russ

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