Speakup digest, Vol 1 #1889 - 9 msgs

[Dawes, Stephen]

Geoff,

I remember reading somewhare, and it may have been in the mount man
page, that /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/floppy can be mounted by users other then
root.

Steve Dawes
PH:  (403) 268-5527. 
Mailto:  sdawes at gov.calgary.ab.ca 





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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoff Shang [mailto:gshang at uq.net.au]
> Sent: 2002 October 04 8:01 AM
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: Re: Speakup digest, Vol 1 #1889 - 9 msgs
> 
> 
> Hi:
> 
> mnt/cdrom isn't a device name, it's a mountpoint.  I guess 
> it's defined in
> /etc/fstab as I described in my message.
> 
> As for not needing to be root to mount filesystems ... hmmm. 
> interesting.
> Not how I'd run a system, but hey.  It's your system.  My 
> understanding was
> that this was a requirement.  Guess it's not, as unsafe as it 
> might be.
> 
> Geoff.
> 
> 
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