From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 6 12:44:19 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 D4CFC16A4CE for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 12:44:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp2.mts.net (smtp2.mts.net [205.200.16.113]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7788A43D45 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 12:44:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gval@mts.net) Received: from [192.168.0.5] (wnpgmb01dc6-121-129.dynamic.mts.net [142.161.121.129])i16KiAVT006552; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 14:44:11 -0600 (CST) From: greg To: Edd Barrett In-Reply-To: <000b01c3eca4$b7c41ae0$8000a8c0@it3> References: <000b01c3eca4$b7c41ae0$8000a8c0@it3> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1076100244.2776.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 14:44:04 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 20:44:20 -0000 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