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Date:      Mon, 12 Jan 2004 23:43:05 +0100
From:      Simon Barner <barner@in.tum.de>
To:        Eric F Crist <ecrist@adtechintegrated.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mounting as non-root?
Message-ID:  <20040112224305.GA687@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de>
In-Reply-To: <200401121441.05186.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com>
References:  <200401121441.05186.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com>

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Hi,

> What is the most secure way to enable mounting of flash drives, cdroms, a=
nd=20
> floppies?  I've seen solutions that include setting setuid on mount.  I w=
ould=20
> rather not go this route.  Is there any other easy, secure way?

You can allow mounting for ordinary users with the following sysctl(8):

vfs.usermount

With Gnome 2.5 (probably also with 2.4, but I need to run the
development version in order to help with some ports) users can mount
cdroms and floppies on mount points in their home directories (~/cdrom
and ~/floppies). Unfortunately, you will need appropriate entries into
/etc/fstab for every user.

Simon

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