user mountable filesystem

Thomas Nikolajsen thomas.nikolajsen at mail.dk
Thu Jan 13 14:09:18 PST 2011


>mount /mnt/thumb/
>msdos: /dev/da8s1: Operation not permitted
>
>How can I do this?

Either you can login as root to do the mount / umount,
or you can set sysctl vfs.usermount to a non-zero value.

This is described in mount.2 manual page;
'mount -a mount' also shows mount options (mount.8);
we don't have 'user', as you found.

Please be aware of security consequences if you allow all users to mount.

 -thomas






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