Another "ah-ha" moment - thanks for the taking the time. All makes perfect sense now. My scripts need sudo rights for other reasons (eg to grep losetup -a) so there's no problem with using sudo mount anyway. I also notice a benefit of sudo mount: the filesystem does not seem to have to be specified in the commandline. mount as sudo must somehow work this out for itself. --- Christian Kujau <evil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > think about it: *any* user would be using "-o" then > and doing perhaps > nasty things. /etc/fstab is (hopefully) only > writeable by root and *he* > determines the -o(ptions) to mount a certain > filesystem. > > my "man 8 mount" says: > > (iii) Normally, only the superuser can mount file > systems. However, when > fstab contains the user option on a line, > anybody can mount the > corresponding system. > > ...and when you "do not put the line in /etc/fstab", > there is no "user" > option in fstab any more - hence only the superuser > can mount it. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
