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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Walsh Michael J NPRI <WalshMJ@csd.npt.nuwc.navy.mil>
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Subject: Re: Persistent user access to floppy, zip, and cd-rom drives 
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On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 09:00:01 EST, Walsh Michael J NPRI wrote:

> How do I give persistent user (me) access to the floppy, zip, and cd-rom
> drives?  I've read in the archives that I can issue the command 
> 
> # sysctl -w vfs.usermount=1
> 
> as root to allow this (which works), but I don't want to have to do this
> every time I reboot.  Do I need to build something into the kernel?

As of FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE, you can add the following line to
/etc/sysctl.conf:

	vfs.usermount=1

The /etc/rc.sysctl script will do the right thing with that at boot
time.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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