On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 11:26:22 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
>
>   at 09:20 AM, John McKown said:
>
>>I don't understand this. In general in UNIX, you cannot access any of
>>the entities in an "unmounted file system" (other than some special
>>utilities when running "root").
>
>You can mount a file system without being root; TDIITD. Doing so
>requires that you know where it is, just as coding UNIT= and VOL=SER=
>does.
> 
I believe that automount will mount a filesystem for anybody;
not even any permission on its root directory is required.
Issuing the "mount" command, however, requires root privilege.

-- gil

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