Re: mount & umount as ordinary user
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* Lukas Ruf <ruf@rawip.org> [2003-04-02 18:33]:
> * Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> [2003-04-02 18:28]:
> > At 2003-04-02T13:30:54Z, Lukas Ruf <ruf@rawip.org> writes:
> >
> > > running Debian sid, I can mount arbitrary, in fstab-preconfigured mount
> > > points as an ordinary user. However, umount'ing these mount points is
> > > possible for root only. Why? I would like to umount those points as an
> > > ordinary user as well.
> >
> > What error do you get when you try to umount those points?
>
> umount: only root can unmount komsys-pc-bern:/home/ruf from /home/ruf/Ruf
>
browsing through the latest source fetched with
apt-get source mount
let me to the following assumption according to information found in
umount.c, line 567ff:
- the entries in /etc/mtab are not correctly set by mount since
a) my /etc/fstab contains the 'user' option
b) comment on line 575 (umount.c) says:
/* A convenient side effect is that the user who mounted
is visible in mtab. */
c) if the option 'users' was specified in /etc/fstab, any user
could umount the mounted point.
c) my /etc/mtab does not contain any 'user=' entry as it is
searched for if 'user' was specified in /etc/fstab
=> the entries in /etc/mtab (which is a link to /proc/mounts).
Has anyone experienced the same problem with mount/umount? I am
running Linux 2.4.20, umount: mount-2.11z, mount: mount-2.11z on a
Debian sid system.
Thanks for any hint!
wbr,
Lukas
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