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- Subject: Re: Can "normal" users mount under Solaris 2.X
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.170700.1@sdl.ug.eds.com>
- From: lorena@sdl.ug.eds.com
- Date: 25 Jan 93 17:07:00 GMT
- References: <C15usz.L0t@intcorp.mn.org> <HIRT.93Jan23210226@itsnova.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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- In article <HIRT.93Jan23210226@itsnova.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de>, hirt@itsnova.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de (Markus Hirt) writes:
- > In article <C15usz.L0t@intcorp.mn.org> jdf@intcorp.mn.org (Joel D. Flatt) writes:
- >
- >> Under SunOS 4.X I was able to allow non-root users to mount and umount
- >> filesystems by having them execute the [u]mount command in a shell
- >> script where the owner of the script is root and the setuid bit is set.
- >> This does not appear to work for Solaris 2.1.
- >
- > It is generally 'unsecure' to have shellscripts setuid root. So it might be
- > possible that setuid for scripts was disabled in Solaris. You may try
- > to write a little C program doing the same as your shellscript and
- > setuid the executables of this one.
- >
- > Markus
- >
-
- don't suppose you'd like to write it for me?!
-
- the users here mount the floppy drive to transfer pc files - and want the same
- utility on solaris machines.
- (we're at 2.1)
- >
- >
- >
- > --
- > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
- > + Markus Hirt + hirt@itsnova.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de +
- > + Institute for Thermal Turbomachinery + +
- > + University of Karlsruhe, Germany + +
- > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
- >
- >
- >
- >
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