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From: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: mntdisk for *BSD
Date: 26 Aug 1994 21:58:56 +0200
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In article <Cv4K86.B4s@space.physics.uiowa.edu>,
Larry Granroth <ljg@space.physics.uiowa.edu> wrote:
> Is there a NetBSD/FreeBSD compatible utility like Mike Fuller's mntdisk
> (cdmount, dosmount, etc) for SPARC/SunOS?
> 
> I'd like to find a convenience package to allow users to mount isofs
> cdroms and pcfs or ufs floppies without root privs.

What about a carefully  written setuid-root PERL  script ? It should do the
job admirably. You'll have to write though :-)

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Ollivier ROBERT                                           roberto@hsc.fr.net
Hervé Schauer Consultants                Ollivier.Robert@keltia.frmug.fr.net
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