From: abel@blinky.bfr.co.il (Alexander L. Belikoff) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Allowing non-root user to mount fs. Date: 08 Aug 1996 12:47:35 +0300 Organization: Berger Financial Research Ltd. Cc: chk1@np.ac.sg (Choo Heng Kek) X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 In article <4ubf9p$23q@triton.np.ac.sg> chk1@np.ac.sg (Choo Heng Kek) writes: From: chk1@np.ac.sg (Choo Heng Kek) What can I do, as root, to allow a non-root user to use the 'mount' cmd to mount an NFS filesystem? I remember a few years ago that I could do that as an ordinary user on Ultrix. 'uname -a' gives: "Linux linux02 1.2.13 #1 Wed Aug 23 01:06:43 CDT 1995 i486 " Email replies would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Regards Heng Kek Mention this fs and destination dir in /etc/fstab w/ user option: vermis:/ /nfs/vermis nfs soft,rw,user,exec,sui d,dev,noauto -- -Alexander ============================================================================== Alexander L. Belikoff belikoff@netvision.net.il Berger Financial Research Ltd. ============================================================================= Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.admin From: Nils Jungclaus Subject: Re: Allowing non-root user to mount fs. Cc: chk1@np.ac.sg Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 10:21:16 GMT Organization: http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/ Choo Heng Kek wrote: > What can I do, as root, to allow a non-root user to use the 'mount' cmd > to mount an NFS filesystem? What about using the amd automounter? It works great and is easily setup. The user does not even have care about the mount command, he only accesses a specified directory and voila, the filesystem is mounted. Nils ,,, (o o) -------------------------oOO--(_)--OOo--------------------- Nils Jungclaus University of Bielefeld phone: +49 521 106-6059 (Germany) fax: +49 521 106-6011 email: nils@TechFak.uni-bielefeld.de -----------------------------------------------------------