kelly@phoenix.ocf.llnl.gov (Bruce E Kelly) (04/30/91)
I have followed some of the discussion on the mount command being run at super-user and have some questions. First, I work for a large supercomputer center, NERSC. We have several Cray computers which allow over 4500 users access to each machine. This would be a nightmare for a systems administrator to handle mounts for that many users on several different machines. If we modified mount so that any user could mount file systems, what problems would we have to look out for and what would need to be done to mount? NeXT has done this on their computers to allow a user to mount optical disks with out being super-user. Thanks for any replies.