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Re: [PLUG] Letting non-root mount floppy/cdrom
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> We recently got two new machines to run solely linux (woohoo!) down here in
> the comp. sci. dept at St. Joe's. I want to be able to give non-root users
> the ability to mount/umount cdroms and floppies and also powerdown. I thought
> the easiest way to do this was to put a script owned by root in /usr/local/bin
> to do 'mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy -t vfat' or whatever, then 'chmod +s' it,
> but that doesn't seem to be working. Any suggestions ?
Shell scripts cannot be suid. One way around this would be to write a
simple C wrapper, which checks to see if the caller's UID matches those
found in a compile-time specified list, and then exec's mount.
-mct
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