From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 14 12: 0:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.telestream.com (mail.telestream.com [205.238.4.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0DB337BB1F for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 12:00:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keith@mail.telestream.com) Received: from localhost (keith@localhost) by mail.telestream.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA04000; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 12:00:21 -0700 Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 12:00:21 -0700 (PDT) From: To: Mike Meyer Cc: Jan Pfeifer , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: allow users to mount CD In-Reply-To: <14744.15737.680866.512393@guru.mired.org> 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 I recently just got amd to mount the cd localy. It's pretty neat stuff. Also mounting remote SGI<5 minutes ago>, FreeBSD and Linux machines. Working on the solaris machine now. I'd recomend anyone mounting even the local cd via amd. True there are a few things running that probably are over kill for the job but it's a great way to do it if you want to have both restriced and super user privies on it. You could have a amd.cdrom config file for the users and one for superuser. I don't know if both could be active in the amd.conf file at the same time but you could surely point two different configs for the cdrom at different locations and give each one different access. Keith ================================= Keith W. At the helm My non work related site www.cydonia.net ================================= On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Mike Meyer wrote: > keith@mail.telestream.com writes: > > 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? > > Well, if you wanted to mount the cdrom via NFS from your local host, > you could certainly do that. You might even be able to convince amd to > mount the thing locally (I've been avoiding amd for the last 8 > years). If there was something like Linux's autofs available, that > would have a similar effect. > > But that's an awful lot of mechanism for what's essentially a simple > problem. Basically, the reason users can't mount cdroms is security > features; just setting those to a less secure mode solves the problem. > > > > ================================= > > Keith W. > > At the helm > > > > My non work related site > > www.cydonia.net > > ================================= > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message