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Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 14:28:33 +1000
From: Gautam Gopalakrishnan <thatha@gmail.com>
To: Grant Speelman <grantg@xsinet.co.za>
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Subject: Re: allowing users to mount cdrom again
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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