[oclug] Clarification: *Why* aren't users generally able to unmount

[Michael Anderson -- Fibics Incorporated]

Vic Gedris wrote:
> How were you able to mount it if you cannot unmount it?  Wouldn't it
> have to be in /etc/fstab in the first place to mount as a regular user?

This is pretty much the same problem that we saw with setting up
the Corel Linux lab last August: it seemed fairly straight forward
to have a user's home directory 

> I don't see any harm in unmounting something you mounted yourself
> either....  anyone?

[michaela at localhost ~]$ ls -ld tmpmnt
drwxrwxrwx    2 michaela michaela     4096 Jan 24 15:08 tmpmnt
[michaela at localhost ~]$ ls -l /bin/*mount
-rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root        62268 Oct  3 01:39 /bin/mount
-rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root        28380 Oct  3 01:39
/bin/umount
[michaela at localhost ~]$ smbmount //jungle/downloads tmpmnt
Password:
[michaela at localhost ~]$ umount tmpmnt
umount: /home/michaela/tmpmnt is not in the fstab (and you are not
root)
[michaela at localhost
~]$