From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 11 7:49:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au (Ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.44.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3BA515502 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 07:49:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au) Received: (from glewis@localhost) by ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA83961; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 00:21:34 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from glewis) From: Greg Lewis Message-Id: <199908111451.AAA83961@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: users mounting filesystems In-Reply-To: <37B15C30.E1A22669@baker.ie> from Cillian Sharkey at "Aug 11, 1999 12:19:12 pm" To: Cillian Sharkey Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 00:21:34 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL56 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've seen this come up before in the mailing lists: > is there a way to give users the ability to mount filesystems > > AFAIK in Linux one can add the "user" mount option in /etc/fstab > and any user can then mount that filesystem (not until I put in the > nosuid,nodev,noexec,etc.. options to limit their use) > > I'm aware it's a potential security risk, but is there any clean > way of giving a user the ability to mount an msdos floppy for example.. > > in the previous discussions, amd, sudo and some other methods were > offered.. > > - Cillian Although I've never used it, amd would appear to be a good answer as it all happens transparently from the user point of view (is this not a good option for you for some reason?). If its just in terms of mounting floppies you can just use mtools and nobody has to mount a thing :). -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 5083 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message