Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 10:37:18 -0500 From: Dany <dany_list@natzo.com> To: Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting CDROM as user under 5.x Message-ID: <3FF2ED2E.6040200@natzo.com> In-Reply-To: <200312311625.38220@harrymail> References: <3FF2612A.6050903@natzo.com> <200312311553.31025@harrymail> <3FF2E64C.3020509@natzo.com> <200312311625.38220@harrymail>
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Thanks Harry for taking the time to answer my questions. I think based on your comments it should work. Is there any security concern having a user belonging to the group operator ? Thanks again Dany Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: >On Wednesday 31 December 2003 16:07, Dany wrote: > > >>Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: >> >> >*SNIP* > > >>This is pretty much what I've tried. My user is in the Wheel group. >>Would this exact configuration work ? Should I set any other >>permission in order to have the user from the wheel group to mount drives? >> >>Thanks for posting your configuration. >> >>PS: One thing I've noticed with this specific user, whenever he creates >>something the file/directory will show owner:username group:username. >>I've used the command "groups" as well as chpass I think and they gave >>me only one group for this username... wheel. Why doesn't wheel appear >>as the group owner for stuff that username is creating ? >> >> > >When you add a user with "adduser" by default FreeBSD creates a group similar >named like the username. If you later say that this user should be in group >wheel it's additional. > > > >>>>>>>added the following to /dev/devfs.conf >>>>>>>link acd0 cdrom >>>>>>>perm acd0 0660 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> > >This line just gives write access to group. You can either add the line: >own acd0 root:wheel > >or you edit /etc/groups and add your user to the group operator. >I'd prefere the latter. > >Here's my simple /etc/group example: ># $FreeBSD: src/etc/group,v 1.28 2003/04/27 05:49:53 imp Exp $ ># >wheel:*:0:root,harry >daemon:*:1: >kmem:*:2: >sys:*:3: >tty:*:4: >operator:*:5:root,harry >mail:*:6: >bin:*:7: >news:*:8: >man:*:9: >games:*:13: >staff:*:20: >sshd:*:22: >smmsp:*:25: >mailnull:*:26: >guest:*:31: >bind:*:53: >uucp:*:66: >dialer:*:68: >network:*:69: >www:*:80: >nogroup:*:65533: >nobody:*:65534: >harry:*:####: >uli:*:####: >schowi:*:####: >administrator:*:####: >alle:*:####:root,harry,uli,schowi,administrator >setiathome:*:####: > >-Harry > >
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