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On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:55:41 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> > > I goto the root console which is always open on one of my desktops |
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> > > & enter 'musb', which is a Bash alias for a 'mount' command; |
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> > Leaving aside the implications of leaving open a root console, |
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> My scripts use pmount and pumount, which are hard-coded to only |
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> mount/unmount devices in directory /media. |
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It's the idea of leaving a root console open for all to access that is |
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the issue, not the commands you run in it. |
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> > that mounts the stick as root. That's fine for a FAT filesystem as |
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> > you can specify mount options to make it world-readable, but what |
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> > about an external drive formatted with ext? What about an external |
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> > drive with multiple partitions? |
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> pmount/pumount to the rescue. See... |
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> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/natty/man1/pmount.1.html |
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I know about pmount, I use it myself. It mounts as the user running it, |
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which is fine from a (non-root) terminal, but udevd is running as root, |
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as are any programs it runs. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Top Oxymorons Number 40: Same difference |
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