From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 6 08:52:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71C4F16A4CE for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 08:52:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A011C43D46 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 08:52:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 10:52:58 -0600 Message-ID: <4023C645.9050904@daleco.biz> Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 10:52:21 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031124 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dngrant@capitol-college.edu References: <000b01c3eca4$b7c41ae0$8000a8c0@it3> <20040206151139.GA23193@earnhardt> In-Reply-To: <20040206151139.GA23193@earnhardt> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Feb 2004 16:52:59.0062 (UTC) FILETIME=[ACF5DD60:01C3ECD1] cc: Edd Barrett cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: desktop freebsd?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 16:52:59 -0000 Darryl Grant wrote: >Perhaps you can use sudo for your normal user and setup the sudoers file >for only the privleges you want your normal users to have. > >HTH, > >Darryl > > > I've found this to be handy also in Gnome. Assigning "sudo ppp -background myisp" to an icon gives a better then M$ functionality for my dialup connection. Perhaps something similar could be done for mount/umount of the CD device.... Any security types out there feel a need to comment? :-) Kevin Kinsey >On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 11:30:38AM -0000, Edd Barrett wrote: > > >>Hi all, >>I have been using freebsd for my web/database/music server for a while and >>it has performed flawlessly. good good! However recently I installed freebsd >>on my desktop too. I can do the things I want to, it just seems that i need >>to be root to do a lot of things. If I didnt have root, I would be screwed. >> >>One point I find annoying is that I cant workout how a normal user can >>unmount a fs. I have created ~/cdrom and put an fstab entry in for it. The >>device is /dev/acd0 (777 for now). vfs.usermount=1. I can mount the share, >>but not unmount it. For now I have chmod +s /sbin/umount. This is bad and i >>wouldnt appreciate a normal user unmounting my hard disks. What is the >>proper way?? My version is 5.2-release. >> >>Also is there any guides online that tell you how freebsd can be configured >>as a desktop machine? >> >>Thanks >>vext01 >> >> >>