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Re: can't umount automounted drives



On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 05:45:47 +0000
Dom <toyer@rpdom.net> wrote:

> On 02/02/11 04:28, briand@aracnet.com wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I've got udev and automount working very nicely, EXCEPT,
> > regular users can't umount the mounted device.
> >
> > the strangest thing is that I'm sure I had it working at some point
> > such that regular users COULD umount.
> >
> > The fstab has the user keyword in it.
> >
> > Strangely passing user in the automount mount options doesn't seem
> > to help.
> >
> > Any ideas ?
> >
> 
> Have you tried putting "users" instead of "user" in the fstab or 
> automount options?
> 
> This means any user can unmount the filesystem, not just the one who 
> mounted it.
> 

The keyword really is "user", according to the fstab(5) man page.
Additionally I know the user keyword works in fstab, i.e. this allows
a user to mount/umount. It seems to be broken when associated with
autofs.

I'm just sure this was working before...

Brian


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