bobf@IBM530.CHEM.UMR.EDU ("Robert B. Funchess") (10/09/90)
Easy to fix... the source code to moptical that was just posted could be modified quite easily to allow you to mount your disk... the central computing people just would have to set up the suid bit once. Then make the mount prog. groupid your group, and only executable BY that group. If you aren't the only person in your group, put it in a directory that is owned by you and mod 700. Now, you have a way to mount your disk, and no one else can do that mount unless they are root (in which case they could have anyway). Incidentally, I LOVE that program... I modified it here to accept any directory name to mount so the maintenance people here (all in the STAFF group) can mount directories without the hassle of becoming root first (or indeed being ABLE to become root... our workstudies can do it so I don't have to come back here every time the power flickers a little :)> ).
karron@MCIRPS2.MED.NYU.EDU (10/09/90)
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. The staff also do not, nor to I, want my disk permanently mounted on a public machine. I should be able to mount and unmount my own disk without root permission if the disk is exported to me, and the mount is in a directory owned by me. dan. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | karron@nyu.edu Dan Karron | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New York University Medical Center | | 560 First Avenue \ \ Pager <1> (212) 397 9330 | | New York, New York 10016 \**\ <2> 10896 <3> <your-number-here> | | (212) 340 5210 \**\__________________________________________ | | Please Note :Soon to move to dan@karron.med.nyu.edu 128.122.135.3 (Mid Oct)| +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow) (10/10/90)
In article <9010090142.AA08794@mcirps2.med.nyu.edu>, karron@MCIRPS2.MED.NYU.EDU writes: |> |> |> 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. -- From the TARDIS of Mark Callow msc@ramoth.sgi.com, ...{ames,decwrl}!sgi!msc "There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play. It strongly defines its content."