From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 16 19:15:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA06058 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 19:15:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA06053 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 19:15:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com) Received: from gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.231.132.20]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <53645(4)>; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 19:15:01 PST Received: from gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (gnu [13.231.133.90]) by gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA00034; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 22:12:57 -0500 (EST) Received: by gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/client-1.3) id AA19684; Sun, 16 Nov 97 22:12:57 EST Message-Id: <9711170312.AA19684@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> To: "Studded" Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "Rich Winkel" Subject: Re: Can anyone mount floppies as non-root? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 16 Nov 1997 16:52:46 PST." <199711170052.QAA19776@mail.san.rr.com> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 19:12:56 PST From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199711170052.QAA19776@mail.san.rr.com>, you write: >On Sun, 16 Nov 1997 18:31:04 -0600 (CST), Rich Winkel wrote: > >>I'm running 2.2.5-stable. > > Good choice. :) > >>I'm still having problems doing this, although all the /dev and msdos_mount >>permissions seem ok. Can anyone mount floppies as a regular user? > > How about the permissions on /sbin/mount and /sbin/umount? This >sounds like a job for sudo, unless it's just you on the box, in which case >you should be able to change ownership of those... just make sure you can >still boot your box. :) > >Good luck, > >Doug > Linux has an attribute in fstab "user". I found it useful, I don't believe freebsd does it, its a good idea. marty