On Mon, Jul 21, 2014, at 23:32, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > On 07/21/2014 11:16 PM, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > So how does umount determine that a device was mounted by a user > > and thus that the user is alllowed to unmount it again? > > man sys-utils/mount.8 # the new one! ;-) :) Ah, the man page is too big! > user Allow an ordinary user to mount the filesystem. > The name of the mounting user is written to mtab > (or to the private libmount file in /run/mount on > system without regular mtab) so that he can unmount > the filesystem again. There is no /run directory on my system. So this probably means that this mechanism requires a minimum kernel version? Or should that be /var/run/mount? By the way, Karel, what are these 'helper=' and 'uhelper=' things that are mentioned in umount.8? Shouldn't these be mentioned in mount.8 too, and more extensively? But... how can uhelper ever be specified when a mountpoint isn't defined in /etc/fstab? Benno -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service should be -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
