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From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>
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Subject: Re: Is it possible to run gpart and newfs on file without root access
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On 19.01.2013 15:01, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Hello, Freebsd-geom.
> 
>   Patches to build and install world without root access will hit tree
> in near future, and I wonder is it possible to build complete NanoBSD
> image without root access? Now image is built via creating MD disk and
> it needs root access anyway :(
>   Is here any way to create disk image (in file) without root access?
> 
>   Yes, permissions fixup needs root access in any case, but it
> could be done on first boot of created image, on target device, with
> some rc kung-foo!

# chmod g+rw /dev/mdctl
# chmod g+rw /dev/geom.ctl

And now the operators group can do what you want.

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov