From owner-freebsd-security Fri May 22 18:49:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA10481 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Fri, 22 May 1998 18:49:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from netmug.org (perl@netmug.org [207.88.43.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA10471 for ; Fri, 22 May 1998 18:49:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from perl@netmug.org) Received: from localhost (perl@localhost) by netmug.org (8.8.8/NetMUG_1.0.0) with SMTP id SAA25881; Fri, 22 May 1998 18:47:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 18:47:17 -0700 (PDT) From: perl To: "William R. Somsky" cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to let users access removable media? In-Reply-To: <199805222328.QAA00295@annwn.phys.washington.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk fbtab - change device protection upon login Check out the fbtab(5) man page for more info. Michael On Fri, 22 May 1998, William R. Somsky wrote: > I've just recently set up a couple of FreeBSD systems here at > the UW Physics department, and I need to be able to set them > up so that the users can access the floppy and (ATAPI) zip > drives. For mtools access, I suppose I can just make /dev/[r]fd0 > and /dev/[r]wfd0* be world readable and writable, but is this the > best way to go about it? Should something else be used? And I doubt > that it's immenent, but what about when someone wants to mount a cd-rom? > I'd like to be able to handle this in a relatively secure fashion w/out > compromising the systems. Anyone been through this before or/have any > suggestions? > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message