Lawson,
Your suspicion was entirely correct. 'mount /dev/hda1' allowed me
to mount it as an ordinary user.
Thanks,
Kenneth
There is no such thing as luck. 'Luck' is nothing but an absence of bad luck.
On Sat, 26 Dec 1998, Lawson A. Whitney wrote:
> Kenneth,
>
> The mount system call requires superuser privilege, so if an ordinary
> user is to be able to use it, the mount command itself must be
> suid 0. The message looks like the one I get when I try to override
> an fstab entry, say change fstype, or even - specify the one that is
> there. Mount will not allow an ordinary user to specify any
> parameters at all besides a mount point, or a block special device,
> but not both. I suspect the presence of more than 1 parameter
> provokes the message.
>
> User is an attribute of the fstab entry, not of the fs as mounted,
> so mount doesn't report it.
>
> It is more blessed to be lucky than good.
>
> Lawson
>
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