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From: msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow)
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Subject: Re: User mountable disks...
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Date: 9 Oct 90 20:50:16 GMT
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In article <9010090142.AA08794@mcirps2.med.nyu.edu>, karron@MCIRPS2.MED.NYU.EDU writes:
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|> While I have my own machine at the medical center, I sometimes use
|> an iris at the main computing facility. I would like to be able to
|> mount my disk over the net as a user. The computing center staff do
|> not want to be bother logging in as root to run mount for me. It seems that
|> I should be able to mount my own disk as a user in my own user account.

Sounds like a perfect application for automount.  See the 3.3 documentation.
Then if, like me, you were intimidated by the length of the man page find
someone who's alreay set it up and copy their setup.

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