Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:22:33 +0200 From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: auto mount xfce4 and kde Message-ID: <200708311422.33707.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <46D7C623.5040709@gmx.net> References: <46D7C623.5040709@gmx.net>
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On Friday 31 August 2007 09:41:23 Koen de Wijs wrote: > This week I installed FreeBSD on a computer of mine. Everything works > fine but one thing I can't get working. > Every person should be albe to work with the machine. The only thing > that isn't working is auto-mounting of cd-roms and usb-sticks. If KDE is > started and I put a usb-stick in the computer there should appear a icon > on the desktop with the usb drive on it and that should also work for > cd-roms. On XFCE4 there should also appear an icon; Don't know about XFCE4, but read on. > I also added the regular user to the group operators. You don't wanna do that, unless it's ok with you that a user can get read access to every file on every disk. Operator is meant for backup users. > What do I need to do to get it working? portinstall desktop-bsd-tools and read the instructions about devfs, with a major side-note: ntfs/fat partitions can only be mounted by root, because mount changes the owner of the disk to the underlying directory, so it's likely that your users cannot mount usb-sticks. To automount usb storage devices as root, have a look at usbd(8) and usbd.conf(5). You'll have to provide an unmounter for your users though and instruct them to unmount before removing or things go to hell. -- Mel
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