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Subject: Re: fstab mount options
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>>>>> "HP" == Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

HP> Is there no possibility of allowing users to mount filesystems, other
HP> than sudo or similar?

HP> `man fstab' `man mount' seems to indicate no `user' mount options.  

Correct.  FreeBSD doesn't do it like linux does it.

You need to turn on a sysctl to allow user mounts, then adjust file
permissions to allow specific file systems to be mounted by the user.
For example, from my Xstartup script (run by kdm):

# allow CD-ROM and ZIP drive user-mounting.
for i in /dev/*acd0* /cdrom /dev/*da0* /zip
do
 chmod 0755 $i
 chown $USER $i
done

and Xreset when I log out:

for i in /dev/*acd0* /cdrom /dev/*da0* /zip
do
 chmod 0755 $i
 chown root $i
done

and from /etc/sysctl.conf:

# allow users to mount CD-ROM and ZIP drives if they have permissions on
# the devices.
vfs.usermount=1


Now I can type "mount /cdrom" as a myself after logging on the
graphical screen.

If you don't login via KDM or XDM, you can do similar things in
/etc/fbtab to set the file permissions for the console user.



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