RE: [SLUG] Autofs Woes

[Rowling, Jill]

This entry in /etc/fstab does automount (eventually), when kudzu gets a
round tuit:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy autonoauto,user,kudzu 0 0

And the permissions are such that end users can write floppies.

HTH
Jill.

-Original Message-
From: Craige McWhirter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, 2 November 2004 12:26 PM
To: SLUG
Subject: [SLUG] Autofs Woes


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Re: [SLUG] Autofs Woes

[Andrew Cowie]

On Tue, 2004-02-11 at 12:26 +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote:
> I'm playing with autofs and friends and the problem that I'm
> encountering is that while it always mounts the object I'm after it
> always mounts it as root, even though I specified the "user" option and
> the user has made the access that caused the object to mount.

That's odd.

FWIW, here's a few fstab entries:

/dev/cdrom   /mnt/cdrom  iso9660   noauto,ro,users 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto  noauto,rw,users 0 0
/dev/sdc1/mnt/usbkey auto  noauto,rw,users,sync0 0

Only difference I can see from yours is "users" instead of "user" which
shouldn't matter.

As an aside, I had to put the following in /etc/filesystems:

vfat
*

Otherwise msdos was getting set as the filesystem type for floppies and
usbkeys instead of vfat (meaning mangled long filenames)
[because /proc/filesystems shows msdos before vfat - see `man mount`] I
didn't have to do this on another system, so its possible that I have
unnecessary drivers built.

AfC
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