Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 19:57:39 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Can't mount CD or floppies as non-super user Message-ID: <199812110157.TAA02941@n4hhe.ampr.org> In-Reply-To: Message from "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> of "Thu, 10 Dec 1998 14:11:13 EST." <199812101913.OAA19549@laker.net>
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"Steve Friedrich" writes: > I need to be able to mount floppies and CDs from a general user account > (non-root). I found a mail in the archives stating that mount_msdos > was setuid, because it was likely to be used by non-admins, but my For floppies the easiest thing to do (IMHO) is to install the mtools port /usr/ports/emulators/mtools, and open the permissions on the floppy device /dev/rfd0 for the appropriate user. Probably best to create a group "floppy", add the users to that group, "chgrp floppy /dev/rfd0" and "chmod g+rw /dev/rfd0" For the CDROM, search the archives again but look for how to set up amd to automount the CDROM. The default amd config does a good job automounting NFS partitions. Wish it did CDOM too. What I haven't seen mentioned is how to umount an amd-mounted fs on demand (vs. the default timeout). I use symbolic links to /host/hostname/filesystem/ports/distfiles to share my downloaded distfile collection between several FreeBSD systems. Automagically mounts and umounts the host as needed. And over comes a problem old FreeBSD had of not being able to recover if a remote host serving a mounted filesystem disappeared. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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