From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 26 2:38: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F40237B400 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 02:37:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D61943E75 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 02:37:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7Q9bove009464; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 21:37:50 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7Q9blCD009463; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 21:37:47 +1200 (NZST) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 21:37:47 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Giant Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help Message-ID: <20020826093747.GA9441@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <014001c24caa$b604e2c0$da1502df@lmsidi> <20020826073113.GA8948@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <000b01c24cd5$c8e6a920$da1502df@lmsidi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000b01c24cd5$c8e6a920$da1502df@lmsidi> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 [Please don't remove Cc: freebsd-questions] On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 02:54:19PM +0700, Giant wrote: > how about using sudo? can it solve the problem to? cause i heard that su is > not secure. sudo is more secure than su Yes you can use sudo. However, I'd say it's *less* secure than su(1); it's just more convenient in certain cases. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people" > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jonathan Chen" > To: "Giant" > Cc: > Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 2:31 PM > Subject: Re: Help > > > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 09:45:59AM +0700, Giant wrote: > > > Why can't i mount cd or harddisk with user account? always prompt with > some error msg that said only root that can do it. what should i do? > > > > > > > su to root and mount it. Users shouldn't be able to mount cdroms and > > harddisks. If there were able to, they could mount a CD/HD containing > > a root suid program and totally trash your system. > > -- > > Jonathan Chen > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > "Beer. Now there's a temporary solution." > > - Homer Simpson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message