Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: uid of user who mounts | | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | | Date | Sat, 31 Jul 2004 19:31:28 +0200 |
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Steve French wrote: > > I confirmed what Randy had mantioned about the user= entries in mtab > allowing umounts (at least it works that way for a few of the local > filesystems I tried) but did not seem to work so well on other > filesystems - I had odd results on umounting my cifs mounts e.g. - after > adding at mount time "user=someuser" to /etc/mtab (by a minor change to > the mount helper mount.cifs.c, when running mount.cifs suid). umount of > those mounts failed
I've seen failure to unmount only if there is no matching entry in /etc/fstab. It sounds a bit too much paranoia, but who knows.
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