Bug 45166 – RFE: mount with dev permissions

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Bug 45166 - RFE: mount with dev permissions

Summary:	RFE: mount with dev permissions

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	mount (Show other bugs)
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Version:	9
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Nalin Dahyabhai
QA Contact:	Aaron Brown
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Keywords:	FutureFeature

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Reported:	2001-06-20 14:51 EDT by Gerald Teschl
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:33 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2005-10-24 09:05:31 EDT
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Description Gerald Teschl 2001-06-20 14:51:33 EDT

I really like the way pam_console sets the permissiond on, e.g., /dev/fd0.
However, i'd like to use autofs for my floppy and then the permissions
won't help since autofs runs as root and hence a floppy is mounted
with owner root. Hence I currently use a little script to change
a uid=...,gid=... option in the automounter map each time a user logs in
via X
(i.e., I added the following to /etc/X11/xdm/GiveConsole
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MYUID=`id -u $USER`
MYGID=`id -g $USER`
sed "s/uid=[0-9]*/uid=$MYUID/g;s/gid=[0-9]*/gid=$MYGID/g" /etc/auto.mnt >
/etc/auto.mnt.
mv -f /etc/auto.mnt. /etc/auto.mnt
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and a similar line to /etc/X11/xdm/TakeConsole) However, I think the right
thing(TM) to do this would be by adding this feature to pam_console...

Comment 1 Gerald Teschl 2001-06-20 14:52:59 EDT

See also bug #20410

Comment 2 Nalin Dahyabhai 2001-08-30 22:43:49 EDT

The pam_console module probably isn't the right place for this -- it only has a
chance to do its thing when you log in, and you'd want this to be done whenever
the filesystem is mounted.  This leads me to believe that this should either be
an autofs feature, or a generic flag given to mount (something like the uid=
flags, but in a "use the device's owner/group instead of the current user/group"
sense).

Comment 3 Gerald Teschl 2002-02-17 11:32:06 EST

I guess you are right, the right place would be mount. I'll
transfere this bug to mount.

Comment 4 Elliot Lee 2004-06-03 14:05:05 EDT

Realistically, this feature is most likely to be implemented by
someone sending in a patch...

Comment 5 Karel Zak 2005-10-24 09:05:31 EDT

Please, send this request to upstream developer(s). This is not right place for
requests like this one. Thanks.

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