On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 09:18:16 -0400 (EDT)
Rob Owens <rowens@???> wrote:

> Another reason not to give users wholesale access to the mount
> command is that they could then 'mount -o remount,rw' any filesystem
> that the administrator has mounted read-only. To protect against
> this, I think you probably need something a bit more complicated than
> just sudo. Of course, for a single user system, this is not a
> problem.

Yes! I'd like to make clear that my advocacy, or even acceptance, of
automount, is for a system used as a *personal computer* by exactly one
person, and that person either has the brains to know about mounting,
or is ignorant enough that s/he's not going to use mount or umount for
anything beyond discs and thumb drives.

Automount on a server would be crazy.

SteveT

Steve Litt
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