On Wed, 1 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999, Doug Rabson wrote:
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Andrew J. Korty wrote:
I provided a solution via send-pr (bin/11031) over four months ago,
which is, in my opinion, superior in many ways to this sysctl
approach. The patch
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999, Boris Popov wrote:
without needing yet another setuid binary/binaries..
Well, sysctl with list of pathes for user mounts looks good.
Configuration is simple and can be easliy changed at runtime. It is
always better to avoid setuid'ed binaries, this is more
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999, Doug Rabson wrote:
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Andrew J. Korty wrote:
I provided a solution via send-pr (bin/11031) over four months ago,
which is, in my opinion, superior in many ways to this sysctl
approach. The
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999, Andrew J. Korty wrote:
You realise that this kind of stuff can be done in kernelspace,
without needing yet another setuid binary/binaries..
Well, sysctl with list of pathes for user mounts looks good.
Configuration is simple and can be easliy changed at
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:Then all you need to do is think of a sane way to chown console devices
:(floppy, cdrom, etc..) to the user when they login? Perhaps an extension
:to login/xdm/whatever kde uses ?
You can do this in /etc/fbtab. You already chown the console for X
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999, Andrew J. Korty wrote:
You realise that this kind of stuff can be done in kernelspace,
without needing yet another setuid binary/binaries..
Well, sysctl with list of pathes for user mounts looks good.
Configuration is simple and can be easliy changed
The user would still have to know what type of filesystem is on
the volume. My code tries filesystem types from a list, one by
one, so the same command or desktop icon will mount a FAT, UFS, or
EXT2FS floppy, for example. The system administrator can also
specify default mount options on
On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 03:01:26AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The user would still have to know what type of filesystem is on
the volume. My code tries filesystem types from a list, one by
one, so the same command or desktop icon will mount a FAT, UFS, or
EXT2FS floppy, for
This still doesn't entirely
Oops. I didn't finish that thought again after the vi -r.
I meant to say that even with a modifed kernel mount() call, there
are difficulties getting all of the configuration possibities into
the kernel propper. (Mount Options, What FS types to try, etc).
-
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999 adr...@freebsd.org wrote:
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999, Doug Rabson wrote:
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Andrew J. Korty wrote:
I provided a solution via send-pr (bin/11031) over four months ago,
which is, in my opinion, superior in many ways to this sysctl
approach. The patch
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999, Boris Popov wrote:
without needing yet another setuid binary/binaries..
Well, sysctl with list of pathes for user mounts looks good.
Configuration is simple and can be easliy changed at runtime. It is
always better to avoid setuid'ed binaries, this is more worse
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999 adr...@freebsd.org wrote:
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999, Doug Rabson wrote:
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Andrew J. Korty wrote:
I provided a solution via send-pr (bin/11031) over four months ago,
which is, in my opinion, superior in many ways to this sysctl
approach. The
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999, Andrew J. Korty wrote:
You realise that this kind of stuff can be done in kernelspace,
without needing yet another setuid binary/binaries..
Well, sysctl with list of pathes for user mounts looks good.
Configuration is simple and can be easliy changed at
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999 adr...@freebsd.org wrote:
:Then all you need to do is think of a sane way to chown console devices
:(floppy, cdrom, etc..) to the user when they login? Perhaps an extension
:to login/xdm/whatever kde uses ?
You can do this in /etc/fbtab. You already chown the console for X
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999, Andrew J. Korty wrote:
You realise that this kind of stuff can be done in kernelspace,
without needing yet another setuid binary/binaries..
Well, sysctl with list of pathes for user mounts looks good.
Configuration is simple and can be easliy changed at
The user would still have to know what type of filesystem is on
the volume. My code tries filesystem types from a list, one by
one, so the same command or desktop icon will mount a FAT, UFS, or
EXT2FS floppy, for example. The system administrator can also
specify default mount options on a
On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 03:01:26AM +0800, adr...@freebsd.org wrote:
The user would still have to know what type of filesystem is on
the volume. My code tries filesystem types from a list, one by
one, so the same command or desktop icon will mount a FAT, UFS, or
EXT2FS floppy, for
This still doesn't entirely
Oops. I didn't finish that thought again after the vi -r.
I meant to say that even with a modifed kernel mount() call, there
are difficulties getting all of the configuration possibities into
the kernel propper. (Mount Options, What FS types to try, etc).
-
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Andrew J. Korty wrote:
I suppose there already was a rather lengthy discussion about a "user"-option
.
I hope this sysctl-thing will make it into the mount-manpage, because if not,
it might turn out to be a really FAQ :)
--
Volker Stolz * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999, Doug Rabson wrote:
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Andrew J. Korty wrote:
I suppose there already was a rather lengthy discussion about a "user"-option
.
I hope this sysctl-thing will make it into the mount-manpage, because if not,
it might turn out to be a really FAQ :)
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Andrew J. Korty wrote:
I suppose there already was a rather lengthy discussion about a
user-option
.
I hope this sysctl-thing will make it into the mount-manpage, because if
not,
it might turn out to be a really FAQ :)
--
Volker Stolz *
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999, Doug Rabson wrote:
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Andrew J. Korty wrote:
I suppose there already was a rather lengthy discussion about a
user-option
.
I hope this sysctl-thing will make it into the mount-manpage, because if
not,
it might turn out to be a really
so where re you at the moment?
julian
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999 adr...@freebsd.org wrote:
Comments welcome.
Adrian
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I suppose there already was a rather lengthy discussion about a "user"-option.
I hope this sysctl-thing will make it into the mount-manpage, because if not,
it might turn out to be a really FAQ :)
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I suppose there already was a rather lengthy discussion about a "user"-option
.
I hope this sysctl-thing will make it into the mount-manpage, because if not,
it might turn out to be a really FAQ :)
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I provided a solution via send-pr (bin/11031)
I suppose there already was a rather lengthy discussion about a user-option.
I hope this sysctl-thing will make it into the mount-manpage, because if not,
it might turn out to be a really FAQ :)
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I suppose there already was a rather lengthy discussion about a user-option
.
I hope this sysctl-thing will make it into the mount-manpage, because if not,
it might turn out to be a really FAQ :)
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I provided a solution via send-pr
vs I whacked mount and umount into shape for using an option "user" in
[snip]
vs http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~stolz/mount.diff
vs http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~stolz/umount.diff.
vs Discussion welcome!
You can allow non-root users to mount and unmount devices if
the
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Natty Rebel wrote:
Quoting JK3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
vs I whacked mount and umount into shape for using an option "user" in
[snip]
vs http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~stolz/mount.diff
vs http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~stolz/umount.diff.
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Chris Piazza wrote:
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 06:30:35PM -0400, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote:
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Natty Rebel wrote:
This procedure can be automated by entering the following command
in /etc/rc.sysctl
sysctl -w vfs.usermount=1
Maybe it's
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Chris Piazza wrote:
# set sysctl variables early as we can
if [ -f /etc/rc.sysctl ]; then
. /etc/rc.sysctl
fi
Mind you it doesn't look like it was merged into releng_3
Could someone do this before 3.3? It's useful functionality.
Kris
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On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Alban Hertroys wrote:
I have seen this line a lot lately. It isn't in FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE, is
it? My /usr/src/sbin/mount/mount.c says:
/*
* If the mount was successfully, and done by root, tell mountd the
* good news. Pid checks are probably
Quoting Chris D. Faulhaber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Chris Piazza wrote:
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 06:30:35PM -0400, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote:
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Natty Rebel wrote:
This procedure can be automated by entering the following command
in
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kris Kennaway
writes:
: Could someone do this before 3.3? It's useful functionality.
As the committer of this feature, I've just sent mail to jkh asking
for permission.
Warner
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vs I whacked mount and umount into shape for using an option "user" in
[snip]
vs http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~stolz/mount.diff
vs http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~stolz/umount.diff.
You can allow non-root users to mount and unmount devices if
the sysctl variable
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Chris
D. Faulhaber" writes:
: Maybe it's just me, but I think you are confusing this with
: {Net|Open}BSD. /etc/rc.sysctl does not exist in FreeBSD.
rc.sysctl does too. I added it.
Excellent. That will be a nice
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 10:47:05PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
As the committer of this feature, I've just sent mail to jkh asking
for permission.
How does this change relate to bin/11031?
The above patches weren't written by me, but by a co-worker of
mine. It allows for a termcap-like
vs I whacked mount and umount into shape for using an option user in
[snip]
vs http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~stolz/mount.diff
vs http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~stolz/umount.diff.
vs Discussion welcome!
You can allow non-root users to mount and unmount devices if
the
Quoting JK3 (j...@bgl.vsnl.net.in):
vs I whacked mount and umount into shape for using an option user in
[snip]
vs http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~stolz/mount.diff
vs http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~stolz/umount.diff.
vs Discussion welcome!
You can allow non-root
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Natty Rebel wrote:
Quoting JK3 (j...@bgl.vsnl.net.in):
vs I whacked mount and umount into shape for using an option user in
[snip]
vs http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~stolz/mount.diff
vs http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~stolz/umount.diff.
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 06:30:35PM -0400, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote:
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Natty Rebel wrote:
This procedure can be automated by entering the following command
in /etc/rc.sysctl
sysctl -w vfs.usermount=1
Maybe it's just me, but I think you are confusing this with
On 29 Aug, Chris Piazza wrote:
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 06:30:35PM -0400, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote:
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Natty Rebel wrote:
This procedure can be automated by entering the following command
in /etc/rc.sysctl
sysctl -w vfs.usermount=1
I have seen this line a lot lately.
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Chris Piazza wrote:
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 06:30:35PM -0400, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote:
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Natty Rebel wrote:
This procedure can be automated by entering the following command
in /etc/rc.sysctl
sysctl -w vfs.usermount=1
Maybe it's
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Chris Piazza wrote:
# set sysctl variables early as we can
if [ -f /etc/rc.sysctl ]; then
. /etc/rc.sysctl
fi
Mind you it doesn't look like it was merged into releng_3
Could someone do this before 3.3? It's useful functionality.
Kris
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On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Alban Hertroys wrote:
I have seen this line a lot lately. It isn't in FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE, is
it? My /usr/src/sbin/mount/mount.c says:
/*
* If the mount was successfully, and done by root, tell mountd the
* good news. Pid checks are probably
Quoting Chris D. Faulhaber (jed...@fxp.org):
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Chris Piazza wrote:
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 06:30:35PM -0400, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote:
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Natty Rebel wrote:
This procedure can be automated by entering the following command
in /etc/rc.sysctl
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Chris D. Faulhaber writes:
: Maybe it's just me, but I think you are confusing this with
: {Net|Open}BSD. /etc/rc.sysctl does not exist in FreeBSD.
rc.sysctl does too. I added it.
Warner
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Kennaway writes:
: Could someone do this before 3.3? It's useful functionality.
As the committer of this feature, I've just sent mail to jkh asking
for permission.
Warner
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vs I whacked mount and umount into shape for using an option user in
[snip]
vs http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~stolz/mount.diff
vs http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~stolz/umount.diff.
You can allow non-root users to mount and unmount devices if
the sysctl variable
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
In message pine.bsf.4.10.9908291829260.61952-100...@pawn.primelocation.net
Chris D. Faulhaber writes:
: Maybe it's just me, but I think you are confusing this with
: {Net|Open}BSD. /etc/rc.sysctl does not exist in FreeBSD.
rc.sysctl does too. I
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 10:47:05PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
As the committer of this feature, I've just sent mail to jkh asking
for permission.
How does this change relate to bin/11031?
The above patches weren't written by me, but by a co-worker of
mine. It allows for a termcap-like
In message 1999083324.a29...@tsunami.waterspout.com C. Stephen Gunn
writes:
: The above patches weren't written by me, but by a co-worker of
: mine. It allows for a termcap-like configuration file /etc/mountcap
: that allows you to specify a mountpoint/device, options, and filesystem
:
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