From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 2 18:40:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au (dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.44.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E0D7E14E5D for ; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 18:40:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au) Received: by dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au (5.64+1.3.1+0.50/UA-5.19) id AA19198; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 11:09:47 +0930 From: Gregory Lewis Message-Id: <9906030139.AA19198@dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: mount options...... In-Reply-To: <000401bead58$a615b3c0$124b93cd@william> from William Woods at "Jun 2, 99 05:33:06 pm" To: wwoods@cybcon.com (William Woods) Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 11:09:45 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 578 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > How do I make it so regular users can mount a drive.... > > When I do a mount_msdos /dev/da0s4 /zip (This is my parallel zip) as root it > is fine but I cant do it as a user, it says operation not permited Look at the permissions on /dev/da0s4. I'd expect that to mount the drive read only a user would need read permissions and to mount it normally (i.e. read write) users would need read/write permissions. I haven't actually tested this out though, so YMMV. -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 3237 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message