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Date:      Fri, 9 Nov 2001 11:40:20 -0500 (EST)
From:      Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: msdos fs user mountable?
Message-ID:  <200111091640.fA9GeKe43814@onceler.kciLink.com>
References:  <200111091553.fA9Frqr37871@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>

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>>>>> "CK" == Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> 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.

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