Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 14:28:33 +1000 From: Gautam Gopalakrishnan <thatha@gmail.com> To: Grant Speelman <grantg@xsinet.co.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: allowing users to mount cdrom again Message-ID: <a3ada2d10407072128dfe352a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200407080041.59032.grantg@xsinet.co.za> References: <200407080041.59032.grantg@xsinet.co.za>
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On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 00:41:59 +0200, Grant Speelman <grantg@xsinet.co.za> wrote: > Hi > > I read in the previous post about allowing users to mount cdrom and > wanted to try it for myself > I did the follow : > > added vfs.usermount=1 to /etc/sysctl.conf > changed the permissions on /dev/acd0 to include the user > restarted freebsd (It's amazing what a restart does for me sometimes) /dev is not a real filesystem. Once you reboot, changes are lost. You would want to put permissions in /etc/devfs.conf so it's more permanent. Gautam
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