Hi,

Can anyone tell me how to permit a non-root user to use the mount command to
mount a cd in AIX 5.1 ?

TIA

Tim Burton

Tim Burton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone tell me how to permit a non-root user to use the mount command to
> mount a cd in AIX 5.1 ?
>
> TIA
>
> Tim Burton
>
>

I'm using automount for this purpose (and for NFS too).

/etc/auto_master contains:

/tmp_mnt /var/yp/tmp_mnt.mount

The indirect automount table /var/yp/tmp_mnt.mount contains:

cdrom -ro,fstype=cdrfs :/dev/cd0

So going in /tmp_mnt/cdrom mounts automatically the cdrom. It is
umounted when the user leave the /mn/cdrom directory after a timeout.

I've a link from /cdrom to /tmp_mnt/cdrom/. and users only knows /cdrom
on the host (they run "cd /cdrom" to access the cdrom).

Patrick

Hi Tim.

Try 'sudo'. Available as a precompiled binary from
http://www.bullfreeware.com

Man pages to explain how it works (first found on Google):
http://www-it.desy.de/cgi-bin/man-cgi?sudo

Hope this helps.

Tim Burton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone tell me how to permit a non-root user to use the mount command to
> mount a cd in AIX 5.1 ?
>
> TIA
>
> Tim Burton
>
>

Patrick Begou wrote:
> Tim Burton wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Can anyone tell me how to permit a non-root user to use the mount
>> command to mount a cd in AIX 5.1 ?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Tim Burton
>>
>>
>
> I'm using automount for this purpose (and for NFS too).
>
> /etc/auto_master contains:
>
> /tmp_mnt /var/yp/tmp_mnt.mount
>
> The indirect automount table /var/yp/tmp_mnt.mount contains:
>
> cdrom -ro,fstype=cdrfs :/dev/cd0
>
> So going in /tmp_mnt/cdrom mounts automatically the cdrom. It is
> umounted when the user leave the /mn/cdrom directory after a timeout.
>
> I've a link from /cdrom to /tmp_mnt/cdrom/. and users only knows /cdrom
> on the host (they run "cd /cdrom" to access the cdrom).
>
> Patrick


Patrick, I hadn't thought to go down that route, but, that does just
what I want.

Many thanks.

Tim

In article <cgajuo$ntd$1$830fa795@news.demon.co.uk>,
Patrick Begou wrote:
>
> cdrom -ro,fstype=cdrfs :/dev/cd0

I'd add the "nodev" and "nosuid" options to this if you're allowing
non-root users to mount CDs, or they will soon enough be root users
:-)

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