"mount" as a user

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 10:57:18AM -0500, James Pifer wrote:
> but now that I'm running linux, I was thinking NFS is probably the
> better way to go. Right? Wrong? Of course I can't run mount unless I'm

Probably. NFS isn't perfect, but at least it has native Unix semantics.


> root and then I don't have rights as my login to the data anyway. Is
> there any way I can seamless mount these drives and still have rights to
> them with my login?

I suggest using autofs to mount them automatically on demand.

<http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Automount.html>




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