From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 3 16:41: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.networkone.net (mail.networkone.net [209.144.112.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 072A937BA40 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 16:40:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reader@newsguy.com) Received: (qmail 26150 invoked from network); 3 Jul 2000 23:40:57 -0000 Received: from adsl-117-113.ln.networkone.net (HELO reader.ptw.com) (209.144.117.113) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 3 Jul 2000 23:40:57 -0000 Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.ptw.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA18543; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 16:40:54 -0700 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fstab mount options References: <14689.1084.894512.504331@onceler.kcilink.com> From: Harry Putnam In-Reply-To: Vivek Khera's message of "Mon, 3 Jul 2000 17:23:08 -0400 (EDT)" Date: 03 Jul 2000 16:40:36 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Lines: 31 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Vivek Khera writes: > >>>>> "HP" == Harry Putnam writes: [...] > 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): > [...] All the responses seem to deal with removable devices. A private poster pointed out that this question is asked repeated and is in the FAQ at: http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/admin.html#AEN2551 So I guess I've stepped into a FAQ, but this also deals with removable media. Its not clear if `sysctl' can be used on disk devices too. I didn't mention it in my original post but I mainly wanted to allow users to mount a dos partition. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message