How to allow a non-root user to mount a specific filesystem?

[andreamon]

Hi all,
I want to allow a specific user to manually mount a specific filesystem on RHEL6
I know I could do this using sudo, but I would like to explore any other possible way.
May I use zsh shell to invoke root script with setuid bit?
Could you please provide me any example?
Thanks
Andrea

[Irithori]

Hi and welcome

this can be done with a configoption in /etc/fstab
Have a look at the user, users and owner options of

man mount

[andreamon]

Hi and welcome

this can be done with a configoption in /etc/fstab
Have a look at the user, users and owner options of

man mount

Hi,
I know that the options "noauto,user" would allow any user to mount and umount the filesystem, and "noauto,users" would allow any user in the "users" group to (u)mount the filesystem.
How can I restrict a single user to (u)mount a particular device (in my case the decive is /dev/mapper/vg02-lvbck )?
thanks
Andrea

[Irithori]

With the owner option and chown-ing the device.

[andreamon]

Thnks Irithori

so the full plan is:
- change the udev rules to change tho ownership of /dev/vg02/lvbck from root:disk to myuser:mygroup
- change the /etc/fstab line to
/dev/mapper/vg02.lvbck /backup noauto,owner 0 0

Thanks
Andrea