From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 9 8:40:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [216.194.193.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FDA037B425 for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 08:40:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [216.194.193.106]) by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5916D2E44D for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 11:40:20 -0500 (EST) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kciLink.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fA9GeKe43814 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 11:40:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from khera) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 11:40:20 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200111091640.fA9GeKe43814@onceler.kciLink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Vivek Khera To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: msdos fs user mountable? Newsgroups: ml.freebsd.questions References: <200111091553.fA9Frqr37871@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> X-Trace: lorax.kciLink.com 1005323597 3710 216.194.193.106 (9 Nov 2001 16:33:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: daemon@kciLink.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "CK" == Christoph Kukulies writes: CK> Is it possible to mount floppies,cdroms etc as normal user? CK> a la fstab entry: CK> /dev/fd0a /mnt/floppy msdos rw,user,noauto 0 0 Yes, provided that a) /mnt/floppy is owned by the user in question, and b) sysctl -w vfs.usermount=1 has been run. I chown /mnt/floppy to the console user via either fbtab or via the XStartup script from KDM. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message