Re: mounting filesystems as a normal user

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%jocelyn.rhein.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 04:08:59PM -0500, Ben Bogart wrote:
> How can i configure netbsd 1.3.2 to allow me to mount a filesystem
> as something other than root? the mount manpage says that its
> possible to do so if the mount point has rwx permissions to the
> mounting user but this does not work. No matter what I do to play
> with the permissions i always geta permission denied message from
> mount.. what am i doing wrong?

_and_ the mounted partition must be rw for the mounted user. But I guess
you did that too?

Hm... try to change the owners instead.

        -is