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Date:      Thu, 2 Nov 1995 13:41:53 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Automounting CD-ROMs 
Message-ID:  <199511022041.NAA17938@rocky.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: <12345.815343386@time.cdrom.com>
References:  <9511021751.AA07623@gnu.mc.xerox.com> <12345.815343386@time.cdrom.com>

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Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
> > Linux has a concent of "user" mount, so any user can generate a 
> > mount /cdrom command (if the entry for /cdrom is user).
> > 
> > I've never seen it, its very useful...does FreeBSD have it?
> 
> Not really, no.  You could make a suid mount wrapper or something,
> but I'm sure the security weenies here would SCREAM! :-)

There's a way of doing it, and it's actually really trivial to do and
completely safe, assuming you think allowing normal users access to the
cdrom is safe.  I had to do it for a machine I use to administer, and if
I remember right it was like 4 lines of code.

> > [BTW -- where's a good place to look for a ChangeLog for the features in 
> > the Freebsd kernel?]
> 
> Erm.  It's all in the CVS repository, but we don't seem to make that
> information available.  Maybe we should generate a change log for
> everything between the previous point release and the current
> one.  Anyone in favor?

We could do it, but since the ChangeLog contains messages for both 2.1,
-current, -stable, and all the rest jumbled in I wouldn't want to be the
person to build it.



Nate



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