From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 9 20:15:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail7.nc.rr.com (fe7.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 506E537B416 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 20:15:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from there ([66.57.85.154]) by mail7.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Wed, 9 Jan 2002 23:15:16 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: abe olson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbie mount question Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 23:15:08 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <3C3D0D97.6070605@attbi.com> In-Reply-To: <3C3D0D97.6070605@attbi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <0a2f01615040a12FE7@mail7.nc.rr.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org -------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! (let him go home) <----------- http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message