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On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

> > Yeah.  That's definitely where I'd start from.  I think the main obstacle
> > for any *BSD system in the ease-of-use department will be the
> > must-mount-as-root issue.  
> 
> huh?  NetBSD (at least) allows non-root mounts (forced to
> nodev,nosuid, ..) if the user owns the mount point and has appropriate
> access to the underlying device..

Oh!  I was under the impression that it just didn't work, even with
correct perms, but I use FreeBSD.  Lemme try it... Can't mount, even
with 0666 on /dev/fd0.  Maybe I'm being stupid.  Wouldn't be the first
time!

Marc.

> I thought that was a 4.4Lite feature..
> 
>                                               - Bill


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