Re: users to use mount

Responding to heavytull...
is there a way for users to use mount.
for instance to mount an iso image in their home directory to a directory in
their home one.
i'm using slackware and it says only root can do that


'man mount' and 'man sudoers' could be interesting to peruse.

IOW, a specific command to mount X_resource to Y_mountpoint could be
included in /etc/sudoers so that a user could mount something
somewhere specifically. The user's password may or may not be
required, as decided by sysadmin (you?), meaning a user would never
need to know the root password to do such things. Kinda neat when you
have multiple users you can't trust that far. ;)

Probably better ways that this though.

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