Date: 31 Jan 2001 11:12:34 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A different "user mounting of /cdrom" Message-ID: <44y9vrpuod.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: bfoz@glue.umd.edu's message of "31 Jan 2001 05:04:19 %2B0100" References: <3A778EA0.2ED43768@glue.umd.edu>
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bfoz@glue.umd.edu (Brandon Fosdick) writes:
> Ok, so I've been through the FAQ entry for allowing users to
> mount/umount removable media. It works exactly like the FAQ said it
> would, and thats my problem.
>
> The provided method allows users to mount media to directories owned by
> the user in question. How do I allow many users to mount the cdrom to
> /cdrom as opposed to ${HOME}/whatever? AFAIK I can't make /cdrom owned
> by all of the users, and setting the group on /cdrom didn't work.
This all depends on how much you trust the users, and how much you
want to treat the machine as a basically single-user (on the console)
machine. One option is giving root powers to the users for just this
one purpose: carefully tuned use of sudo (in the ports) or a
suid-root (ugh) program to do the mount for you. Another option is
giving the /cdrom directory to the console user with fbtab(5) and/or
Xsetup.
The latter option at least protects the console user from possibly
malicious other users.
Good luck.
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