On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 04:41:30PM -0700 or thereabouts, 'cduck' Chris Grierson 
wrote:
> i am confused.  if i mount my zip disk as root, i can still umount as a normal
> user.  i have specified 'user,noauto' as the options in fstab, but i am seeing
> behavior expected of 'users,noauto' (not the plural user*s*).
> 
> from `man mount`:
> 
> (iii) Normally, only the superuser can mount file systems.  However, when 
> fstab conĀ­
> tains the user option on a line, then anybody can mount the corresponding 
> system.
> ...
> For more details, see fstab(5).  Only the user that mounted a filesystem can 
> unmount
> it again.  If any user should be able to unmount, then use users instead of 
> user  in
> the  fstab  line.
> 
> anyone know what's up?
> 
> i need anyone to be able to mount, but only the user who mounted it (and 
> maybe root)
> to unmount it...
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