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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:	DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:	Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:	SMURF::DENHAM

Created:	Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	10068
Total number of notes:	35879

8861.0. "how d I allow users to mount file systems?" by TROOA::ras024p16.tro.dec.com::Ihab () Mon Feb 17 1997 21:15

How do I give a particular user a permission to mount a certain file system?

I've given him ownership of the raw-device "/dev/xxx" and also the ownership 
of the mount point.  As well as added him to the system group in "/etc/group" 
file.

I'm using ADVFS and keeps getting "file not owner" error message!  I've also 
tried the suid in the mount command!

Any ideas....
Thanks;

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
8861.1		LEXSS1::GINGER	Ron Ginger	`Tue Feb 18 1997 08:49`	3
	use the sudo utility to allow users specific commands as root. sudo is on the freeware disk, gatekeeper, most Linux CD's and on the net.
8861.2		DECWET::MARTIN		`Wed Feb 19 1997 15:05`	7
	mount_advfs requires an EUID of 0 to mount an AdvFS filesystem. This is, unfortunately, required to prevent possible denial-of-service attacks. Go with Ron's suggestion of sudo, or look at making /sbin/mount_advfs suid instead of /sbin/mount suid. --Ken