On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 01:07:08AM +0800, John wrote: > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > I got no takers on these questions on the valhala list. Maybe here I will do > We've all left;-) > > better. > > > > What is gained by this more complicated owner option as opposed > > to the precious user option for allowing a user to mount a cd? I can't > > see any advantage to this arrangement. > > With "user" you mount, I can unmount. > With "owner" you mount, I cannot unmount. > > > > > The related question is their any serious important effect of simply > > changing the owner option to user which would prevent the first problem > > mentioned? > > > What problem? Well I blew it . I did not explain the problem because it was a valhalla problem. But for completeness we had students on our lab login to a machine console and not be able to mount a cdrom because the device /dev/hdc was owned by someone else. Has any one see this? ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@trinity.edu -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
