Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 20:17:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Mikko Tyolajarvi <mikko@dynas.se> To: lowell@world.std.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User-mounting floppies (was Re: stupid questions) Message-ID: <200006051817.UAA79061@m2.dynas.se>
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In freebsd-questions you write:
>Willem Brown <willem@brwn.org> writes:
>> If you were to create another group, called floppy or something. Change
>> the group on /dev/fd0 and the mount point to floppy with mod 0660, would
>> that not solve the problem without allowing for the opportunity to break
>> other things?
>This works fine for a system that's assumed to be single-user, and on
>which all of the users are assumed to be trusted. That *was* the
>assumption of the person to whom you were responding, but it's
>something you have to be a little careful with. Note that in that
>situation, there are a *lot* of solutions that will work fine.
>One of the hardest cases is that of a public "terminal room," where
>not only can't the users be given root powers, but their files have to
>be protected from *each* *other* as well, and only the person with
>physical access to the drive should be able to mount (or umount) the
>device. In FreeBSD, the only way I can think of to do this is by
>using xdm (or equivalent), and adjusting permissions to the relevant
>devices in much the same way as is done for the console.
Have a look at fbtab(5).
/Mikko
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