Mount problem

Mercurius · 08-12-2006, 04:15 PM

How do I give acces to a user to commands such as mount and shutdown, poweroff etc.?

xode · 08-12-2006, 06:41 PM

For the mount command, you can add entries to /etc/fstab to allow regular users to mount and unmount specific devices by specifying only the directory that the device is assigned to in /etc/fstab. For details on how you add entries to /etc/fstab, do "info fstab" at any terminal prompt.

Mercurius · 08-12-2006, 06:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xode

For the mount command, you can add entries to /etc/fstab to allow regular users to mount and unmount specific devices by specifying only the directory that the device is assigned to in /etc/fstab. For details on how you add entries to /etc/fstab, do "info fstab" at any terminal prompt.

Cam you be a little more specific please? Here is my fstab file.

Code:

/dev/hda3        swap             swap        defaults         0   0
/dev/hda2        /                ext3        defaults         1   1
/dev/hda1        /dos/c           ntfs        ro               1   0
/dev/hdb1        /dos/d           vfat        defaults         1   0
/dev/cdrom       /mnt/cdrom       auto        noauto,owner,user,ro  0   0
/dev/hdd         /mnt/dvdrom      auto        noauto,owner,user,ro  0   0
/dev/fd0         /mnt/floppy      auto        noauto,owner     0   0
devpts           /dev/pts         devpts      gid=5,mode=620   0   0
proc             /proc            proc        defaults         0   0

AAnarchYY · 08-12-2006, 07:00 PM

you will need to edit your /etc/sudoers file. the format is:

user machine=full/path/to/command1,/full/path/to/command2

then as the user just type sudo /full/path/to/command1, it will ask for the users pass, and upon correct password, will execute the command.

xode · 08-13-2006, 01:21 AM

In your /etc/fstab file, I see the user option present for the lines for /dev/cdrom and /dev/hdd (your dvdrom I presume). It would therefore follow that a regular user can mount and unmount the cdrom and dvdrom drives. Do you have a problem doing this on your system? If you don't, simply add the user option to the corresponding place in those other lines that belong to devices that you want a regular user to be able to mount and unmount. In general, you don't want a regular user to be able to mount or unmount any non-removable devices.