vfs.usermount and directory owner
Roland Smith
rsmith at xs4all.nl
Fri May 6 01:41:03 PDT 2005
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 09:41:45AM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to be able to access my cd drive as normal user. As any user, not a
> specific one. So it's a problem that I can't mount it to a general
> directory like /cdrom since only one user can be owner and it looks like
> it's required that the mountpoint belongs to the user, even with
> vfs.usermount=1 set.
If you set the setuid bit on /sbin/mount and /sbin/umount, you should be
able to get around this limitation, I think.
Roland
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