From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 17 8:22:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.intop.net (smtp.intop.net [206.156.254.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DA5237B77F for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 08:22:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from charlie (iwkcpe.intop.net [208.149.79.30]) by smtp.intop.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA20881; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 10:23:34 -0500 Message-Id: <200008171523.KAA20881@smtp.intop.net> From: "Charlie" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 10:28:58 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: Quoted-printable Subject: Re: How to allow user mounts? In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 17 Aug 00, at 16:03, Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] wrote: > > For the machines in our pool, I'd like to allow users to mount CD-ROMs > themselves to a fixed mount point, say /cdrom. Is this possible on > FreeBSD? (I know it is on Linux via a special /etc/fstab option.) > > -- > Cheers =3D8-} Mike > Friede, V=F6lkerverst=E4ndigung und =FCberhaupt blabla If you're trying to grant access to console users, have a look at /etc/fbtab (not a typo). man 5 fbtab will allow you to set permissions on /dev/whatever for console users. For remote users shelling in, you might be better off looking at sudo, or another wrapper program that allows certain users to perform tasks that usually only root can do. Hope this helps, -Charlie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message