Re: User mounts could not use character conversions (libkiconv is just for roots)

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 12:08:52PM +0600, Boris Popov wrote: Probably it is not a good idea to allow users to load kernel iconv tables because one can waste a lot of memory by loading of all possible conversion schemes. The better solution is to add some kind of preload ability which

User mounts could not use character conversions (libkiconv is just for roots)

Hello, I have found, that user mounts using libkiconv.so (msdosfs, cd9660, ...) could not use character code conversions, beause writing to sysctl kern.iconv.add is allowed just for root. Personally, I have created small patch, which allows to change kern.iconv.add to anybody, so it does work

Re: User mounts could not use character conversions (libkiconv is just for roots)

On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 05:38:05PM +0100, Rudolf Cejka wrote: I have found, that user mounts using libkiconv.so (msdosfs, cd9660, ...) could not use character code conversions, beause writing to sysctl kern.iconv.add is allowed just for root. Personally, I have created small patch, which