On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 20:36:53 -0700, Lee Einer <appealsman@cox.net> wrote:
> If I haven't made my appreciation clear, let me take this opportunity to
> say THANKS, Craig, for patiently helping me out with my networking
> questions.
> 
> Ever the one to continue taking advantage, I have one more question-
> 
> I found once I got it all together and place an entry in my /etc/fstab
> file so the network directory would mount on my laptop at startup, that
> it  causes my laptop to hang for quite awhile on reboot. I decided that
> since I will be needing to access this directory only occasionally for
> backup purposes at present, I did not want it to automount at boot, but
> would rather do it manually. But not too manually. I want to manage it
> with a shell script which I can invoke by clicking a desktop icon when
> needed.
> 
> Writing the script was no biggie, nor was making it executable or
> creating the desktop icon. The hitch in the giddyup is that the mount
> command must be run as root, and whereas that is no problem if invoking
> the script from a terminal by its pathname, I have no idea how to set it
> up so that I get a prompt for root password when running the script with
> an icon. Putting "su" into the script is no good, it seems, as the su
> command must be run from a terminal, and Linux is fetishistic enough in
> its security measures that it ignores attempts to suid a shell script.
> 
> Any ideas? I have googled relentlessly, and while I found a few
> suggestions online, none of them proved viable in this circumstance.
> 
> --
> 
> Lee Einer
> Dos Manos Jewelry
> http://www.dosmanosjewelry.com
> 
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See fstab options "noauto" and "user" (or "users")
noauto = do not automount entry at boot. This will allow you to keep
the line in fstab for easy and quick mounting.
user = allow non-root user to mount. This is the only user (except for
the superuser, root) that can umount the volume)
users = same as above, except any user, not just the one to mount it,
may umount it.
With that in mind, keep the original entry adding "noauto" and one of
the user[s]. Your desktop shortcut only needs to execute "mount
/path/to/mountpoint"

-Bryce
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