Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 20:37:27 -0800 From: abe olson <abeolson23@attbi.com> To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbie mount question Message-ID: <3C3D1A87.8070007@attbi.com> References: <3C3D0D97.6070605@attbi.com> <0a2f01615040a12FE7@mail7.nc.rr.com>
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awesome. I'll give it a look when I'm done with /usr/ports make clean ;-) Abe Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: > On Wednesday 09 January 2002 10:42 pm, abe olson wrote: > >>I want to set my machine up so I (the only user of this machine) can >>mount and unmount cdrom's and floppy's without having to become root or >>use su. I've searched all over the net and the documentation without >>finding a method to do this that works. I'm using 4.4-RELEASE. I know >>that this is a huge security hole and all that. I don't really care. >>Its a single user system. No one but me and my brother have physical >>access to the machine. I'm not worried about him since he is deeply >>afraid of my computer ;-) >> >>So far I've tried adding myself to the operator group and changing the >>permissions on the cdrom and floppy devices and directories. The fstab >>file doesn't support ,user like it does in most linux installs. I'm >>lost. Please help me out. >> >> >>Thanks a lot people. freebsd rocks. >> > > I use "op" to handle this; more people use "sudo", but I think that "op" is > much nicer -- it's a port. > > I would like to be able to turn off this one little bit of security myself, > but in practice typing > > op mount /E > > is now second nature and not much harder than just > > mount /E > > (I mount my cd-rom to /E, my floppy to /A, and the Windows partition (well, > when I still had a Windows partition) to /C. > > > > >> >>Abe >> >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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