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Re: Policies concerning root privs

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From: Stanley Friesen
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1991 20:24
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In article <30593@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt1111a@prism.gatech.EDU (Vincent Fox) writes:
>The new automount facilities kill the problem of needing root to do mounts.
>And other programs COULD be setuid'ed as needed.

Only if what I need mounted is in the automount lists.

On several occasions I have needed to mount a file system that was *not*
in any of the officially maintained automount lists.

Would you consider arranging to mount a file system to be another SA service
like installing a software package?
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uunet!tdatirv!sarima				(Stanley Friesen)
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From: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
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Subject: Re: Policies concerning root privs
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Date: 5 Jun 91 20:24:56 GMT
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