Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:12:00 -0400 From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: not able to mount devices as normal user? Message-ID: <200208201012.00241.bts@babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20020820121934.GM389@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> References: <3D5EFE0E.298AB5AC@buffalo.edu> <1029714373.720.2.camel@messias.netcabo.pt> <20020820121934.GM389@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
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On Tuesday 20 August 2002 08:19 am, Roman Neuhauser wrote: | > Subject: Re: not able to mount devices as normal user? | > From: André Ramos <andre.ramos@netcabo.pt> | > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org | > Date: 19 Aug 2002 00:46:13 +0100 | > | > On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 02:53, Ron Weatherston wrote: | > > I'm not able to mount devices (such as a CD-ROM drive) as a normal user | > > despite the fact that I own the mount point that I'm trying to mount | > > to. | | ... | | > Add the line | > %users ALL=/sbin/mount /cdrom,/sbin/umount /cdrom | > to the /usr/local/etc/sudoers file. | | this implies you have sudo (/usr/ports/security/sudo) installed. | you should be warned that this software has a pretto poor security | record, and definitely should not be used on computers accessible | from internet. you might want to try op /usr/ports/security/op) | instead. Not to mention that it's vastly more flexible and IMHO much easier to use. But to be fair the better security record of op probably owes a lot to it's relative obscurity: crackers spend more time breaking into common systems. The expected payoff is higher. -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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