Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 02:00:04 -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: <3FF3C574.60309@natzo.com> In-Reply-To: <200312311642.47172@harrymail> References: <3FF2612A.6050903@natzo.com> <200312311625.38220@harrymail> <3FF2ED2E.6040200@natzo.com> <200312311642.47172@harrymail>
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The "operator" trick worked. Thanks again and happy new year. Since I've started the FreeBSD experience, I've collected about 20 pages of tips and tricks to get stuff running. I will probably publish something so others can enjoy it. Dany Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: >On Wednesday 31 December 2003 16:37, Dany wrote: > > >>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 ? >> >> > >I never really cared about. AnonFTP is owned by operator, but in general I >think wheel is worse than operator. >Please correct me anybody, I don't really care on my workstation ;) >Best is to have a look through the (default) filesystem and see if operator >has any write permissions where it was no good. I'm quiet sure wheel has much >too much read permissions for "normal" users. But that doesn't matter for >useres who can su ;) > >Happy new year, > >-Harry > > > >>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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