Speakup digest, Vol 1 #1889 - 9 msgs

[Bear in SFO]

This is the way I look at mounting/unmounting devices:  your CD-ROM and 
floppy drive is in the console, so it won't do you any good mounting or 
unmounting if you are a remote user.  If you get to sit in front of the 
console, then who cares who you are?  It might be really, 'stupid' (for the 
lack of a better word) if you have to get root to come and mount/unmount 
your CD or floppy every time you work on the console and do not have root 
(or su or sudo) access...

--David

At 12:01 AM 10/5/2002 +1000, you wrote:
>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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