[ale] user using mount

[Keith Hopkins]

David Corbin wrote:
> On Sunday 28 May 2006 06:37 am, Keith Hopkins wrote:
>> David Corbin wrote:
>>> Is there a way to mount an NFS export as "dump user", without having to
>>> configure it in fstab?  mount seems to object to this...
>> `mount` usually requires 'root' unless it is configured properly in
>> /etc/fstab, or under an automounter, or under by running mount via `sudo`.
> 
> Is there a security justification for this limitation?
> 

Yes.

Most of this goes back to access permissions to the devices under /dev that you want to mount.

ll /dev/hda
brw-r----- 1 root disk 3, 1 2006-05-27 18:25 /dev/hda1

Guess who rw has access?  Not just any 'dumb user', just 'root'. Ci Zhi.

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  Keith