Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!tdatirv!sarima From: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: Policies concerning root privs Message-ID: <24@tdatirv.UUCP> Date: 5 Jun 91 20:24:56 GMT References: <30593@hydra.gatech.EDU> Reply-To: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Organization: Teradata Corp., Irvine Lines: 14 In article <30593@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt1111a@prism.gatech.EDU (Vincent Fox) writes: >The new automount facilities kill the problem of needing root to do mounts. >And other programs COULD be setuid'ed as needed. Only if what I need mounted is in the automount lists. On several occasions I have needed to mount a file system that was *not* in any of the officially maintained automount lists. Would you consider arranging to mount a file system to be another SA service like installing a software package? -- --------------- uunet!tdatirv!sarima (Stanley Friesen)