On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Steve Feehan wrote:
> rpjday wrote:
> >
> > the man page for the "mount" command says nothing about
> > the "owner" option, which shows up in /etc/fstab for, in
> > my case, /dev/cdrom and /dev/fd0.
> >
> > what does this mean? originally, i thought it meant that
> > the files under that mount would be effectively owned by
> > the person who did the mount, but this is clearly not true.
> >
> > what does it mean, and why is it kept such a secret?
> >
> > rday
> >
>
> I believe it is similar to the 'user' option except that the
> user must be the owner of the device in order to mount it.
nope, that doesn't seem to be right. as a user, i can mount
/dev/cdrom, although it is owned by root.root. besides, that
would negate some of the functionality of the "user" option.
rday
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