Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 10:52:21 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: dngrant@capitol-college.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: desktop freebsd?? Message-ID: <4023C645.9050904@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <20040206151139.GA23193@earnhardt> References: <000b01c3eca4$b7c41ae0$8000a8c0@it3> <20040206151139.GA23193@earnhardt>
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Darryl Grant wrote: >Perhaps you can use sudo for your normal user and setup the sudoers file >for only the privleges you want your normal users to have. > >HTH, > >Darryl > > > I've found this to be handy also in Gnome. Assigning "sudo ppp -background myisp" to an icon gives a better then M$ functionality for my dialup connection. Perhaps something similar could be done for mount/umount of the CD device.... Any security types out there feel a need to comment? :-) Kevin Kinsey >On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 11:30:38AM -0000, Edd Barrett wrote: > > >>Hi all, >>I have been using freebsd for my web/database/music server for a while and >>it has performed flawlessly. good good! However recently I installed freebsd >>on my desktop too. I can do the things I want to, it just seems that i need >>to be root to do a lot of things. If I didnt have root, I would be screwed. >> >>One point I find annoying is that I cant workout how a normal user can >>unmount a fs. I have created ~/cdrom and put an fstab entry in for it. The >>device is /dev/acd0 (777 for now). vfs.usermount=1. I can mount the share, >>but not unmount it. For now I have chmod +s /sbin/umount. This is bad and i >>wouldnt appreciate a normal user unmounting my hard disks. What is the >>proper way?? My version is 5.2-release. >> >>Also is there any guides online that tell you how freebsd can be configured >>as a desktop machine? >> >>Thanks >>vext01 >> >> >>
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