From: utzoo!decvax!duke!mcnc!dvamc!ccw
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Allowing users to mount disks
Article-I.D.: dvamc.1048
Posted: Wed Apr  6 13:52:15 1983
Received: Thu Apr  7 03:04:32 1983



I'm thinking of making our dual density floppy drive available
for general users to mount a UNIX filesystem over a specific
directory.  I've talked with one of the local super-gurus about
this, and his suggestion is to write a quick little program that
goes out to the disk and changes all file ownership to that of
the user wanting to mount the diskette.  I can also see a problem
if the diskette is exchanged with another AFTER the mount.  Has
anybody out there thought about these problems and if there is
any really secure way to allow general users to mount a filesystem?