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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