Subject: Re: Unprivileged access to devices
To: Louis Guillaume <lguillaume@berklee.edu>
From: Bruce J.A. Nourish <bjan+netbsd-users@bjan.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/03/2004 01:13:16
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 01:09:12AM -0500, Louis  Guillaume wrote:
> ... it does, however work if the mount point is within the user's home 
> directory. This is on 1.6ZF and 1.6ZG, GENERIC.MP/i386 and GENERIC/i386.

mount(8) says:

  In NetBSD, a file system can only be mounted by an ordinary user who owns
  the point node and has access to the special device (at least read per-
  missions).  In addition, the vfs.generic.usermount sysctl(3) must be set
  to 1 to permit file system mounting by ordinary users.

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