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From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com>
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Subject: Re: Mounting CDROM as user under 5.x
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On Tuesday 30 December 2003 11:39 pm, Dany wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Because I didn't get any response on BSDforums, I've decided to try my
> chance here.
>
> I'm trying to get my single user (belonging to the wheel group) mounting
> a CD drive under 5.x using devfs (5.2RC2).
> Could somebody post a very simple howto showing the files to modify ? Tha=
nx
>
> So far I've tried the following things without success :
>
> mkdir /home/username/mount/cdrom
> chown username /home/username/mount/cdrom
> chmod 755 /home/username/mount/cdrom
>
> added the following to /etc/sysctl.conf
> vfs.usermount=3D1
>
> added the following to /dev/devfs.conf
> link acd0 cdrom
> perm acd0 0660
>
> added /etc/devfs.rules with
> [my_ruleset=3D10]
> add path 'acd*' mode 660
>
> added the following to /etc/rc.conf
> devfs_system_ruleset=3D"my_ruleset"
>
> /dev/cdrom now shows up and root can use it to play a DVD for example
> but user cannot use it either directly (/dev/cdrom) or when trying to
> mount a CD (mount_cd9660 /dev/cdrom /home/username/mount/cdrom) .. the
> result is =93Operation not permitted=94
>
> Thank you
> Dany

All I do for my user that's a member of wheel under FreeBSD 4.* is:

chmod u+s /sbin/*mount

Does this not work in FreeBSD 5.*?

Andrew Gould