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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!news-ham1.dfn.de!news-han1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!news.chemietechnik.uni-dortmund.de!Uni-Dortmund.DE!vestein.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de!not-for-mail From: wb@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de (Wilhelm B. Kloke) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: User mount possible? Date: 13 Jun 1997 11:00:39 +0200 Organization: Inst f Arbeitsphysiologie Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5nr27n$ees@vestein.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: gisli.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de Cache-Post-Path: gisli.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de!unknown@vestein.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:3568 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42976 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 mount(2) tell me, that the mount syscall needs superuser privilege. But I don't want those users to be superusers. The most clean solution I found out seems to write a suid wrapper for the operations needed. Or is it possible to do this be setting suitable group or user permissions on the device entry and the mount point? Does anybody have a suid script usable for my purpose already? Thanx, wbk -- Dipl.-Math. Wilhelm Bernhard Kloke Institut fuer Arbeitsphysiologie an der Universitaet Dortmund Ardeystrasse 67, D-44139 Dortmund, Tel. 0231-1084-257 vormittags