Diego Nicola Barbato writes: > Hello Danny, > > Danny Milosavljevic writes: > >> Hmm, how is that solved with other distributions? Is "mount" suid root there? > > Indeed, in Debian both mount and umount are suid root: > > $ stat -c "%a %U:%G %n" /bin/*mount > 4755 root:root /bin/fusermount > 4755 root:root /bin/mount > 4755 root:root /bin/umount I've tried adding "mount" and "umount" to `setuid-programs' in my operating-system config: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (setuid-programs (cons* #~(string-append #$util-linux "/bin/mount") #~(string-append #$util-linux "/bin/umount") %setuid-programs)) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Mounting as an unprivileged user now works as expected (even the fancy 9p stuff). Is there any rationale for not adding "mount" and "umount" to `%setuid-programs' by default? Thanks, Diego