From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 10 08:50:50 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA20126 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 08:50:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Bespin.worldnet.net (bespin.worldnet.net [195.3.3.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA20108 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 08:50:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pcasidy@worldnet.fr) Received: from greatoak.home (p14-004.province.worldnet.fr [195.3.14.4]) by Bespin.worldnet.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA05079; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 17:49:12 +0100 (CET) Received: (from pcasidy@localhost) by greatoak.home (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA03064; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 17:35:55 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from pcasidy) Message-Id: <199902101635.RAA03064@greatoak.home> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 17:35:55 +0100 (CET) From: Philippe CASIDY Subject: Re: Mounting CDROM (or removable media) by users To: gjb@comkey.com.au cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990210001221.19077.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10 Feb, Greg Black wrote: >> My question was more about why it is not possible than how to solve >> this. > > Forgive me for failing to understand that you didn't want to > solve the problem you were complaining about. My mistake not being clear on the first time. >> To solve this, I have read about sudo tools and there maybe a >> possibility with amd. >> But what is the reason about this behavior? As I said, under Debian >> Linux, you just have to add the option 'user' in the fstab file. Why no >> such options under FreeBSD? Anyway, I found the solution with sudo more >> flexible but I am just curious to know what is the reason about not >> being able to do this directly with the system. ;-) > > This is like complaining that `ls' is not spelled `dir' since > that's what you were used to with MSDOS. If you prefer a system > that does things differently, why not use that system? If you'd > prefer to see FreeBSD do something differently, why not spend an > hour or two to develop the feature that you want and submit it > to the FreeBSD core team for possible integration in a future > release? You example is not very revelant because you are comparing two different system and it is very easy to find a workaround. Anyway, I like the sudo feature because as far as I understand, you can easily choose who can or cannot mount a device. I just want to know what is the technical reason why by default, only root can mount the cdrom. Thanks anyway Phil. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message