Re: [K12OSN] Access to local CD ROM
Shahms E. King (shahms@shahms.com)
01 May 2002 08:20:45 -0700
Yes, I hadn't thought of that. The only issue is if sudo will let you
specify aliases, which I don't think it will, meaning you have to give
every user carte blanche "mount" privileges, which is really not a good
idea.
--Shahms
On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 06:58, Jim Wildman wrote:
> Instead of messing with fstab, can you use sudo to allow each
> person to mount their own drive through an alias?
>
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>
> On 1 May 2002, Shahms E. King wrote:
>
> > and then we come to the ugly, but workable hack:
> > you have to create /etc/fstab entries for the mount points or the users
> > won't be able to mount them... my initial thought was to create the
> > mount points under /mnt//cdrom, etc. and have a symlink from there
> > to $HOME/cdrom BUT mount doesn't dereference links, so that doesn't
> > work) which means you have to modify /etc/fstab through a script of some
> > kind, which is kind of ugly and potentially error prone, so solution:
> >
>
>
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