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Date:      Sun, 15 Aug 2004 15:54:16 +1000 (EST)
From:      Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
To:        edwinculp <edwinculp@prodigy.net.mx>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   cd and dvd burning program K3b and permissions for non-root users.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1040815154335.3722A-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au>
In-Reply-To: <20040814234011.BF09B16A4D0@hub.freebsd.org>

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On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org wrote:
[..]
 > Message: 4
 > Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 08:47:09 -0500
 > From: edwinculp <edwinculp@prodigy.net.mx>
[..]
 > 
 > I've installed K3b and it works great for the root user but I can't
 > get it to work for any non-privileged user even though I have put the
 > user in the wheel group and have set sysctl vfs.usermount=1, cd0 has
 > permissions set to 666, the same in devfs.conf (That solves the
 > problem for xmms but not for k3b.  I have tried to suid and kde won't
 > let it start.  I'm out of ideas.  After this much time, I'm sure that
 > I'm making a mountain out of a mole hill and I'm missing something
 > very simple. 
 >
 > Any help would be appreciated.  I can't see my users using burncd
 > 
 > 
 > Thanks
 > 
 > ed
 > 
 > P.S. Machines are running current and are AMD Athlon

I see you've not got this going yet.  I don't know about current but on
4.x, as well as vfs.usermount=1 you need to have non-root users mount
CDs on a directory that they actually own.  Might that be an issue here?

Cheers, Ian



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