Subject: Re: Mounting premissions
From: Adam Elkins (i-robot@gci.net)
Date: Wed Jan 08 2003 - 11:23:26 AKST
Do I have to reboot for changes to take effect? I'd rather not if theres a way
around it....
Adam
On Wednesday 08 January 2003 08:05 am, Leif Sawyer wrote:
> Put this (or make sure the entries look like this) in your /etc/fstab:
>
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,sync 0 0
>
> the 'user' portion lets normal users mount the media
> the 'nosuid' makes sure that normal users can't mount foreign
> set-uid binaries and become root
>
> notice that you can 'exec' files from a cdrom, but not from floppies.
>
>
> You can copy the user,nosuid to any other mountpoint that
> you want users to be able to mount.
>
>
> That should be enough to get you going, yes?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Adam Elkins [mailto:i-robot@gci.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 7:45 AM
> > To: aklug@aklug.org
> > Subject: Mounting premissions
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm trying to let users mount drives, I'm thinking maybe a
> > chmod is used, is
> > this correct? I tried 'chmod 777 /dev/<device>
> > It didn't work, I don't fully understand how to set
> > premissions yet....
> >
> > Adam
> >
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