topic mounting permissions in Operating System - HP-UX

mounting permissions

ramprakash surulirajan — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:13:51 GMT

I am trying to find out whether a non root user can mount/unmount a filesystem/device like cdrom,NFS share,local FS.

Re: mounting permissions

A. Clay Stephenson — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:17:57 GMT

Yes, although sudo can be used to grant that ability to non-root users.

Re: mounting permissions

Rick Garland — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:51:22 GMT

By default, must have root UID to mount/umount filesystems.

sudo is a great package for this. Can be very specific as to what can be mounted and umounted