From: Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>
To: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>, Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: "util-linux@vger.kernel.org" <util-linux@vger.kernel.org>,
"Pádraig Brady" <P@draigbrady.com>
Subject: Re: mount.8: mtab as symlink
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:32:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53CD86FC.7000808@bernhard-voelker.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1405977369.18035.144118445.737362A9@webmail.messagingengine.com>
On 07/21/2014 11:16 PM, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> So how does umount determine that a device was mounted by a user
> and thus that the user is alllowed to unmount it again?
man sys-utils/mount.8 # the new one! ;-)
user Allow an ordinary user to mount the filesystem.
The name of the mounting user is written to mtab
(or to the private libmount file in /run/mount on
system without regular mtab) so that he can unmount
the filesystem again.
Have a nice day,
Berny
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-21 21:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-21 6:05 mount.8: mtab as symlink Bernhard Voelker
2014-07-21 8:28 ` Karel Zak
2014-07-21 21:16 ` Benno Schulenberg
2014-07-21 21:32 ` Bernhard Voelker [this message]
2014-07-21 22:18 ` Benno Schulenberg
2014-07-21 23:49 ` Karel Zak
2014-07-27 18:57 ` Benno Schulenberg
2014-07-29 10:21 ` Karel Zak
2014-07-29 19:41 ` helper= and uhelper= Benno Schulenberg
2014-07-30 7:26 ` Karel Zak
2014-07-31 19:47 ` Benno Schulenberg
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