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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!xciv.demon.co.uk!xciv.demon.co.uk!usenet From: paul@xciv.org (Paul Civati) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: User mount possible? Date: 14 Jun 1997 12:22:10 GMT Organization: Discotheque Message-ID: <5nu2di$7o@xciv.demon.co.uk> References: <5nr27n$ees@vestein.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: pantera.xciv.org X-NNTP-Posting-Host: xciv.demon.co.uk [158.152.69.64] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 X-URL: http://www.xciv.org/~paul/ Cc: newsposts@xciv.org Lines: 21 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:3571 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43001 In article <5nr27n$ees@vestein.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de>, wb@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de (Wilhelm B. Kloke) writes: > I ran into the following problem. I am serving diskless workstations > on FreeBSD (2.2, if that matters). I want the users of these > workstations to be able to mount their local disks, floppies and > CD-ROM, and use local swap space, if available. The man pages Some systems (Linux for one, I think) have a 'user' mount flag, to enable ordinary non-root users to mount devices. > mount(2) tell me, that the mount syscall needs superuser privilege. > But I don't want those users to be superusers. But I guess, if having the above functionality, mount would have to be setuid for it to work. Perhaps there is some good reason why FreeBSD (and Net, Open?) don't have this feature? -Paul-