mounting for non-root users
Todd Slater
dontodd at columbus.rr.com
Mon Apr 18 15:41:11 UTC 2005
OK yes, I'm a bonehead--that's exactly what it was. I thought that the
"user" option in fstab made user:group irrelevant. As soon as I change
owner to my user everything is OK.
Thanks for the help,
Todd
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 04:19:58PM +0200, ulrich steffens wrote:
> may be a silly question, but have you permissions for /mnt/novell ?
>
>
> 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 napisaĆ(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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