From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 2 16:04:10 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA22525 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 16:04:10 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA22514 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 16:04:05 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id BAA29068 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 1995 01:03:53 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id BAA15628 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 3 Nov 1995 01:03:53 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id XAA16222 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 23:41:58 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511022241.XAA16222@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Automounting CD-ROMs To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 23:41:57 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <12345.815343386@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 2, 95 12:16:26 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 803 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > 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 no reason to scream. You can force the wrapper to mount nosuid,noexec if you like, and you can make it executable only to the members of a particular group. I personally prefer typing "do-mount cd" anyway instead of "su root; mount -r -t cd9660 /dev/cd0a /cdrom; exit". -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)