Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 23:15:08 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: abe olson <abeolson23@attbi.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbie mount question Message-ID: <0a2f01615040a12FE7@mail7.nc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <3C3D0D97.6070605@attbi.com> References: <3C3D0D97.6070605@attbi.com>
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On Wednesday 09 January 2002 10:42 pm, abe olson wrote:
> I want to set my machine up so I (the only user of this machine) can
> mount and unmount cdrom's and floppy's without having to become root or
> use su. I've searched all over the net and the documentation without
> finding a method to do this that works. I'm using 4.4-RELEASE. I know
> that this is a huge security hole and all that. I don't really care.
> Its a single user system. No one but me and my brother have physical
> access to the machine. I'm not worried about him since he is deeply
> afraid of my computer ;-)
>
> So far I've tried adding myself to the operator group and changing the
> permissions on the cdrom and floppy devices and directories. The fstab
> file doesn't support ,user like it does in most linux installs. I'm
> lost. Please help me out.
>
>
> Thanks a lot people. freebsd rocks.
I use "op" to handle this; more people use "sudo", but I think that "op" is
much nicer -- it's a port.
I would like to be able to turn off this one little bit of security myself,
but in practice typing
op mount /E
is now second nature and not much harder than just
mount /E
(I mount my cd-rom to /E, my floppy to /A, and the Windows partition (well,
when I still had a Windows partition) to /C.
>
>
> Abe
>
>
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