From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011226 Description of problem: In /etc/fstab the partition has the "owner" option but NOT user. The ordinary user does NOT own the device file as the manpage mount(8) specifies as being required for "owner" to work. Only root can mount the partition, but an ordinary user can umount it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Detailed in attachment 2 [details]. 3. Actual Results: See attachment Expected Results: The ordinary user "peon" should not have been able to unmount the partition. Additional info:
Created attachment 41952 [details] Showing ordinary unmounting a partition not allowed in fstab
Verified. Assigning to util-linux where mount lives these days.
util-linux-2.11n-3 has a patch to fix this, and the upstream maintainer has fixed it in his tree.
*** Bug 56593 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***