mounting for non-root users

ulrich steffens ulrich at barfuss-jerusalem.org
Mon Apr 18 14:19:58 UTC 2005


may be a silly question, but have you permissions for /mnt/novell ?

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Am Montag, den 18.04.2005, 09:55 -0400 schrieb Todd Slater:
> Hi Emil:
> 
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 03:31:55PM +0200, Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski wrote:
> > Todd Slater napisaƂ(a):
> > 
> > >2. sudo chmod 4755 /usr/bin/ncpmount
> > > 
> > >
> > Ouch. Never do that. I don't know about Novell stuff, but all the 
> > devices that are user-enabled sits in my /etc/fstab. For NFS, Samba, 
> > VFat and others there's an option called user, so when you add a 
> > following line
> > 
> > /dev/ice /pa/th MyFilesystem user,noauto 0 0
> > 
> > All the users would be able to mount and dismount device by calling
> > 
> > mount /pa/th
> > 
> > from the shell.
> 
> I tried finding the device path by mounting it via sudo and peeking at
> /etc/mtab, copied that info into /etc/fstab and added the user option. I
> still get the same error.
> 
> The device path seems weird because it starts with the server name; it
> finds it, though, because "sudo mount /mnt/novell" works but again not for
> regular user.
> 
> Todd






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