Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 11:29:08 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: desktops and mounting Message-ID: <XFMail.010104112908.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20010104115026.B10414@lpt.ens.fr>
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On 04-Jan-01 Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Recently while setting up a FreeBSD machine for desktop use, and > watching linux users on their machines, it seemed to me that > everything that can be done on linux can be done equally easily on > FreeBSD -- except non-root mounting of removable media (like floppies, > CDROMs). You can't allow user mounts simply by adding a "user" option > in /etc/fstab, and simple point-and-clicking in KDE/GNOME doesn't work > either. > > This can be pretty important to some people. There is a workaround in > the FAQ, but it's fairly complicated and the end result is you can > mount it to a mount point owned by you but you still can't create an > fstab entry and issue a simple command like mount ~/cdrom -- you have > to write the full mount command including the device etc. It may be > possible to configure KDE or GNOME to do the right thing -- I haven't > tried -- but even so, one may have to do this individually for every > user. Also, the FAQ entry issues dire warnings about system security > and so on. > > Any thoughts? On my desktop I have sudo configured to allow mounting of CD's and floppies without requiring a password, then I have gkrellm configured to use sudo to run the commands to mount the disks when I click on the button. However, this only allows read access as everything is mounted as root:wheel. :-P > Rahul -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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