From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 20 7:12:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05B6537B401 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 07:12:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.southeast.rr.com (smtp2.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE1AF43E3B for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 07:12:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@fake.com) Received: from mail6.nc.rr.com (fe6 [24.93.67.53]) by smtp2.southeast.rr.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g7KED7ts017805; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:13:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from this.is.fake.com ([24.162.238.30]) by mail6.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:12:19 -0400 Received: by this.is.fake.com (Postfix, from userid 111) id 6F8C2BA12; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:12:00 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" To: Roman Neuhauser , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: not able to mount devices as normal user? Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:12:00 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <3D5EFE0E.298AB5AC@buffalo.edu> <1029714373.720.2.camel@messias.netcabo.pt> <20020820121934.GM389@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <20020820121934.GM389@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200208201012.00241.bts@babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 20 August 2002 08:19 am, Roman Neuhauser wrote: | > Subject: Re: not able to mount devices as normal user? | > From: André Ramos | > 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