determining what user mounted a drive

determining what user mounted a drive

[Len Giambrone]

Is there a way of determining with what user credentials a share was mounted?
I suppose I could touch a file on the drive and then find out who the owner is, but that's not ideal.

mount will tell me that it's a user mount, but won't tell me WHICH user.

Is there some way (windows native or Cygwin) of getting this information?


-Len



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Re: determining what user mounted a drive

[Jeremy Bopp]

On 5/10/2011 16:25, Len Giambrone wrote:
> Is there a way of determining with what user credentials a share was mounted?
> I suppose I could touch a file on the drive and then find out who the owner is, but that's not ideal.
> 
> mount will tell me that it's a user mount, but won't tell me WHICH user.
> 
> Is there some way (windows native or Cygwin) of getting this information?

Are you asking about shares mapped to drive letters using a
Windows-native process such as "net use", or are you asking about shares
mapped to Cygwin paths using the mount command?

-Jeremy

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RE: determining what user mounted a drive

[Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]]

Len Giambrone sent the following at Tuesday, May 10, 2011 5:25 PM
>Is there a way of determining with what user credentials a share was
>mounted? I suppose I could touch a file on the drive and then find out
>who the owner is, but that's not ideal.
>
>mount will tell me that it's a user mount, but won't tell me WHICH user.
>
>Is there some way (windows native or Cygwin) of getting this
>information?

I do not know but here is a guess.  Wouldn't any user mount be that of
the current user?  Isn't that the point of user mounts - I only see my
own?  And if I'm root, I only see system mounts?

And if you want to see the user mounts of individual users, according to
the UG <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table>, that
should be in </etc/fstab.d/user_name>.

Otherwise, what about the following?
$ stat -c %U /mount_point

But if you are talking about, something that happened before a cygwin
process was lanched, I think you want to use the word "mapped", not
"mounted" and I can't say much more than that.

- Barry
  Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.


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Re: determining what user mounted a drive

[Corinna Vinschen]

On May 10 18:04, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> Len Giambrone sent the following at Tuesday, May 10, 2011 5:25 PM
> >Is there a way of determining with what user credentials a share was
> >mounted? I suppose I could touch a file on the drive and then find out
> >who the owner is, but that's not ideal.
> >
> >mount will tell me that it's a user mount, but won't tell me WHICH user.
> >
> >Is there some way (windows native or Cygwin) of getting this
> >information?
> 
> I do not know but here is a guess.  Wouldn't any user mount be that of
> the current user?  Isn't that the point of user mounts - I only see my
> own?  And if I'm root, I only see system mounts?

Yes and no.  You only see your own user mounts, but if there is a user
root, this user would have a right to create user mounts, too.


Corinna

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