Re: uid of user who mounts

[Miklos Szeredi]

Steve French wrote:
>
> I confirmed what Randy had mantioned about the user= entries in mtab
> allowing umounts (at least it works that way for a few of the local
> filesystems I tried) but did not seem to work so well on other
> filesystems - I had odd results on umounting my cifs mounts e.g. - after
> adding at mount time "user=someuser" to /etc/mtab (by a minor change to
> the mount helper mount.cifs.c, when running mount.cifs suid).  umount of
> those mounts failed

I've seen failure to unmount only if there is no matching entry in
/etc/fstab.  It sounds a bit too much paranoia, but who knows.

Miklos
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