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Why don’t the ‘user’ and ‘users’ options work in /etc/fstab?

April 26, 2017don’t fstab Options

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Why don’t the ‘user’ and ‘users’ options work in /etc/fstab?

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The ‘mount’ command doesn’t invoke the ntfs-3g binary with the needed privilege after it has checked and approved the user is entitled to mount a given device on a specified mount point, hereby the user can’t open the device he got the approval in /etc/fstab. This is a problem in the ‘mount’ utility. Solution: Use at least NTFS-3G 1.2506 with setuid-root set and make sure the user has access rights to the volume and mount point.