mount_ntfs as normal user

Zbigniew Komarnicki cblasius at gmail.com
Thu Sep 13 06:43:16 PDT 2007


On Thursday 13 of September 2007 12:13:46 Mel wrote:
> Well, that kills that. Only thing I could think of is setuid mount_ntfs.
> It's really weird, cause I can't get ntfs to mount under normal userid even
> with correct permissions. What you can do shouldn't be possible for 2 or 3
> reasons. I wonder if it's just ntfs, can you mount another partition as
> normal user? Like, unmount /usr and remount as normal user or if you have a
> less busy partition like /data or whatever.

Yes, this is only for ntfs. 
For ufs or msdosfs partitions (slices) it is not posible. 
Only ntfs I can mount and unmount as normal user.

What I should to do with ntfs_mount? Remove the setuid?

Thank hou very much Mel.


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