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How do I allow users to use the mount command to mount and umount
partitions across a few linux systems ?

Any help is appreciated.

Quote:>How do I allow users to use the mount command to mount and umount
>partitions across a few linux systems ?

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: How do I allow users to use the mount command to mount and umount
: partitions across a few linux systems ?

In your /etc/fstab file, you add the option "user" to the filesystems you want the users
to mount.
Note that the user option add "noexec, nosuid, nodev" unless overriden.

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: How do I allow users to use the mount command to mount and umount
: partitions across a few linux systems ?

Install 'sudo' and edit /etc/sudoers with 'visudo' in this way:

Quote:> rhohost:~ # cat /etc/sudoers
> # sudoers file.

>  # Cmnd alias specification
> Cmnd_Alias  MISC=/bin/rm,/bin/cat,/bin/mount,/bin/umount

>  # User specification
> root    ALL=ALL
> rhoenie ALL=MISC

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Quote:> How do I allow users to use the mount command to mount and umount
> partitions across a few linux systems ?

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It is extremely easy to allow a user to mount/unmount drives in Linux.
All you have to do is add the user option in /etc/fstab.  

For example, I allow users to mount and unmount the cdrom drive.  Here
is my entry from /etc/fstab:

/dev/hdc        /cdrom  iso9660 ro,user,exec,async,noauto       1       1

Any user on my system can type 'mount /cdrom' or 'umount /cdrom' and
have it work.  If you want more precise controll, then you will need
to use some other method.  But if you just wany any user to be able
to mount/umount cd's and floppys, the /etc/fstab will do the trick.

Dan

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