From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 17 9: 2:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 24CDC37B996 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:02:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 16328 invoked from network); 17 Aug 2000 16:01:52 -0000 Received: from sys3.physics.iisc.ernet.in (144.16.71.27) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 17 Aug 2000 16:01:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 6672 invoked by uid 211); 17 Aug 2000 16:01:50 -0000 Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 21:31:49 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Charlie Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]" Subject: Re: How to allow user mounts? Message-ID: <20000817213149.A6642@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: Charlie , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]" References: <200008171523.KAA20881@smtp.intop.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200008171523.KAA20881@smtp.intop.net>; from charlie@infoworks.net on Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 10:28:58AM -0500 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.0.31 i486 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Charlie said on Aug 17, 2000 at 10:28:58: > 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 =8-} Mike > > Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt 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. Also see the faq entry http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/admin.html#AEN2788 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message