From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 3 17:55:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-80.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FD8D37B409 for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2001 17:55:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id ED2D066C29; Sat, 3 Nov 2001 17:55:47 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 17:55:47 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mounting removable media as a regular user? Message-ID: <20011103175547.A78694@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20011103203943.A29267@keyslapper.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011103203943.A29267@keyslapper.org>; from leblanc+freebsd@keyslapper.org on Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 08:39:44PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 08:39:44PM -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > Hey folks. Just came home with my Nikon CoolPix 885 and Sandisk > SDDR-31-01. Sweet! >=20 > It took a little searching once I got things physically hooked up, but > I can now mount it as a dos partition. The only thing I'd like to do > now, is be able to mount it as me rather than root. So, what are the > caveats of changing permissions on the device itself? Is there a way > to make it automount so I don't have to worry? >=20 > I rarely have to bother with mounting removable media, since I rarely > use CDs - until I get my CDRW in, and I never trust floppies, so what > is the best way to handle this? You need to toggle the vfs.usermount sysctl and change the device permissions so that the appropriate users can mount it. Kris --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE75KAjWry0BWjoQKURAm6lAJ9/bxR8nBW6kPzQ+QUMJIczovIxbQCgn2Qx HAAWiM+b6Q+458xauMcX03g= =ew1s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message