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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