Re: autofs bug report

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
21 Sep 1998 23:55:32 GMT


Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980920171256.894G-100000@oakley.keble.ox.ac.uk>
By author: Mike <mike@oakley.keble.ox.ac.uk>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Slava wrote:
>
> > Hello Everybody.
> >
> > There is a bug in autofs 3.1.1 with linux 2.1.122. If you manually mount
> > a
> > filesystem onto it's mount point as specified in the automount map, it
> > hangs.
> > For example, if I have this in my /etc/auto.vol:
> > floppy -fstype=vfat,user :/dev/fd0
>
> On a related (sort of) note, does the user option actually do anything in
> automount?
>

It acts like an alias for "noexec,nodev,nosuid". Its use is
*definitely* not recommended, though.

-hpa

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