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Date:      Sat, 3 Nov 2001 17:55:47 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mounting removable media as a regular user?
Message-ID:  <20011103175547.A78694@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011103203943.A29267@keyslapper.org>; from leblanc%2Bfreebsd@keyslapper.org on Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 08:39:44PM -0500
References:  <20011103203943.A29267@keyslapper.org>

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On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 08:39:44PM -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> Hey folks.  Just came home with my Nikon CoolPix 885 and Sandisk
> SDDR-31-01.  Sweet!
>=20
> It took a little searching once I got things physically hooked up, but
> I can now mount  it as a dos partition. The only thing  I'd like to do
> now, is be able  to mount it as me rather than root.  So, what are the
> caveats of changing  permissions on the device itself? Is  there a way
> to make it automount so I don't have to worry?
>=20
> I rarely have to bother with  mounting removable media, since I rarely
> use CDs - until I get my CDRW  in, and I never trust floppies, so what
> is the best way to handle this?

You need to toggle the vfs.usermount sysctl and change the device
permissions so that the appropriate users can mount it.

Kris
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