Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 12:25:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Tim Joseph <tim.spam@spicy.org.uk> To: Fuji Zhang <fzhang3@csd.uwo.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: user mount cdrom Message-ID: <20020209121825.M907-100000@athos.ticktock.foo.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0202082245450.3103-100000@dbb001.csd.uwo.ca>
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Hi, Type the following as root, without rebooting: sysctl vfs.usermount=1 but to maintain the effect after a reboot, add the following line to /etc/sysctl.conf: vfs.usermount=1 Then you should be able to mount drives as an ordinary user, but with the following limits: 1) If user X mounts the drive, only root or user X can umount it 2) User X can only mount a drive within their own directories, ie /home/X/cdrom This is from my own experience, YMMV HTH From, Tim -- To email me, please remove the ".spam" On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Fuji Zhang wrote: > hi, i have hard time to mount my cdrom as a oridnary user. i can do it as > root. i followed some of the instructions at some FAQ page. but it did not > work. any ideas and suggestions? appreciated. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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