From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 30 13:59:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA21552 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 13:59:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason03.u.washington.edu (jason03.u.washington.edu [140.142.77.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA21547 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 13:59:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul4.u.washington.edu (root@saul4.u.washington.edu [140.142.83.2]) by jason03.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id NAA39668; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 13:59:29 -0800 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul4.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id NAA00753; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 13:59:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 13:59:03 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Philippe CASIDY cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to allow users to mount devices? In-Reply-To: <199811302152.WAA00322@greatoak> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Philippe CASIDY wrote: >I want to allow some users to mount the cdrom or the floppy. >I have tried to change the permissions on the mount point and the >/dev/xx. >All I have is a 'Operation not permitted' >Thanks Look at the 'sudo' software. It allows specified users to perform allowed actions that would normally require root priveleges. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message