On Fri, 2001-09-07 at 18:41, '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 con > 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...
Check to see if you as a user have access to the raw device that the zip is (/dev/sde or whatever etc). You most likely are given access to the filesystem object so you can unmount as a non privelaged user but I think your mounting users will need to be in the disk group at the very least to initially mount. --mike
