From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 12 18:46:03 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E835716A4CE for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:46:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ptb-relay02.plus.net (ptb-relay02.plus.net [212.159.14.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7189F43D2F for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:46:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ml-freebsd-newbies@codepad.net) Received: from [80.229.159.44] (helo=[192.168.0.4]) by ptb-relay02.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1ConVJ-000IU6-Br for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:46:01 +0000 From: Xian To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:46:00 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <20050108170052.28548.qmail@gawab.com> <1105222340.28926.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050112182508.7698.qmail@gawab.com> In-Reply-To: <20050112182508.7698.qmail@gawab.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200501121846.00477.ml-freebsd-newbies@codepad.net> Subject: Re: File System mounting prob X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:46:04 -0000 On Wednesday 12 January 2005 18:25, Emon wrote: > Hello everyone > > I would appreciate some advice on the folling problems > > First.... > > Is there any way to mount a filesystem, as a generel user? so > that everytime I put a cd in the CD player I dont have to su to > root just to mount it! > > Second.... > > I can't find kppp(the dial up connecter that used to come with > KDE) anymore!?? If KDE is not providing it any more, then is > there any other (GUI) substitute for it? > > Thanks > Jadukor > --------------------------------------------- > Free POP3 Email from www.Gawab.com > Sign up NOW and get your account @gawab.com!! > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Set sysctl vfs.usermount to 1 to allow anyone to mount stuff. You can do this from the command line like `sysctl vfs.usermount 1` or every boot by putting a line 'vfs.usermount=1' in /etc/sysctl.conf. Then you need to allow people who are going to mount things have access to the drives so chmod them 666. I have a script that chmods the drives on boot but this is a bodge cos its supposed to be done with devfs rules (man devfs for more info) but I am not so good at these (if anyone can help me as well here please). This way works but I think it might have some security issues along the lines of suid files. I've never used kppp so sorry I can't help here. -- /Xian "A tree only hits a car in self defence" Unknown author