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Date:      Wed, 09 Jan 2002 20:37:27 -0800
From:      abe olson <abeolson23@attbi.com>
To:        "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: newbie mount question
Message-ID:  <3C3D1A87.8070007@attbi.com>
References:  <3C3D0D97.6070605@attbi.com> <0a2f01615040a12FE7@mail7.nc.rr.com>

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awesome.  I'll give it a look when I'm done with /usr/ports make clean ;-)



Abe


Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:

> 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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