Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 14:44:04 -0600 From: greg <gval@mts.net> To: Edd Barrett <edd@arameus.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: desktop freebsd?? Message-ID: <1076100244.2776.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <000b01c3eca4$b7c41ae0$8000a8c0@it3> References: <000b01c3eca4$b7c41ae0$8000a8c0@it3>
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Make yourself part of the wheel group. That should solve a lot of your problems. On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 05:30, 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- greg <gval@mts.net>
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