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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
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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-