Autofs for root only??

[gklein@xs4all.nl (Gertjan Klein)]

  I am trying to convince autofs to allow others than root to access the
automounted filesystems, and I'm failing miserably. I can find no
information on this subject in the man pages.  It appears the problem is
not directly related to autofs, though, because I fail with standard
mount as well.  Here is what I did to test:

asterix:/# mkdir test
asterix:/# chown root:disk test
asterix:/# dir test
drwxrwxr-x   2 root     disk         1024 Jun 23 21:56 test
asterix:/# mount -t ext2 /dev/hda6 /test -o user,suid,exec
asterix:/# dir test
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         1024 Jun 22 19:31 test
asterix:/# dir /dev/hda6
brw-rw----   1 root     disk       3,   6 Jul 21  1998 

  For some reason, the mount command changes the permissions of /test
right back to what they were.  If I log in as a user and try to access
(write to) the mounted filesystem I'm denied access. The same happens
with autofs mounted filesystems.

  What can I do to fix this?

  TIA,
  Gertjan.

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Gertjan Klein <gklein@xs4all.nl>
The Boot Control home page: http://www.xs4all.nl/~gklein/bcpage.html