Mik J <[email protected]> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I'm able to mount a partition as a user if I have
>kern.usermount=1
>#
>ls -l /dev/wd2*
>brw-rw----  1 root  operator    0,   0 May  7 21:54 /dev/wd2a
># ls -l /mnt
>drwxrwxr-x   2 myuser  operator  512 May  7 22:38 extpart
>and
>#
>grep operator /etc/group
>operator:*:5:root,myuser
>
>However, I'm unable to
>mount the partition if the owner of /mnt/extpart is root although that
>mount
>point is rwx by the group operator and myuser belongs to that group.
># ls -l
>/mnt
>drwxrwxr-x   2 root  operator  512 May  7 22:38 extpart
>
>I assume that
>kern.usermount allows a partition to be mounted only if the mount point
>is
>owned by a user and the group owner is not considered.
>I have search for a
>variable kern.groupmount but there is not such thing.
>
>So my question is:
>Is
>it possible to allow a group to mount partitions (or usb keys, cdrom) ?

sudo comes to mind...

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