Access Permissions

[mike h]

Benjamin,

To allow a non-root user to mount drives you need to edit your /etc/fstab
accordingly.  You should put the "user" option into the line for /dev/hda,
for example:

/dev/fd0               /mnt/floppy             ext2    noauto,user     0  0

The above line allows users on my system to mount floppies.

'man 5 fstab' and 'man 8 mount' will describe the options you can place in
the /etc/fstab better than I can.

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Michael Hornung		foobar at u.washington.edu

On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Benjamin Honsinger wrote:

|Hey, I need to allow my account (benh) to have full access to /dev/hda. I need to be able to mount and unmount it, read/write, etc. How do I allow this? I need to run VMware, and I don't think it's a great idea to run that as root. If anyone has used this program, it'd be great if someone could explain whether or not I should use the raw disk feature. I have win98 currently installed on /hda1 and would really like to use that, but I've been reading conflicting information on how risky raw disk is... Is it safe or not?
|Thanks!
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|Benjamin
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