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Date:      Mon, 14 Aug 2000 11:27:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:      <keith@mail.telestream.com>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        Jan Pfeifer <janpf@iname.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: allow users to mount CD
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10008141124590.3139-100000@mail.telestream.com>
In-Reply-To: <14744.14145.199363.850926@guru.mired.org>

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I'm a TOTAL nfs/amd newbie but wouldn't it also be possible to setup amd
to mount the cd with the proper perms on it, having nfs/amd basicaly do
the perms according to what's in your /etc/exports file?

Keith

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On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Mike Meyer wrote:

> Jan Pfeifer writes:
> > How do I let users mount a CD, or any other mount point ?
> 
> This question was answered just last week. Basically, you add
> "vfs.usermount=1" to /etc/sysctl.conf (creating it if you need to),
> chmod the cd devices to mode 660, put the users you want to be able to
> mount things in group operator (which owns the CD devices by default;
> fix that or use the group that owns them instead if this isn't the
> case), then reboot the system.
> 
> Users in group operator can then mount cds on directories *they* own.
> 
> > ps2.: I wanted to avoid to make a suid script to do this ...
> 
> Suid scripts are a very bad idea, so that's a good thing to avoid. If
> the above doesn't work, make it a C program instead of a script.
> 
> 	<mike
> 
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