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Date:      Tue, 6 Jan 2004 11:24:06 -0500
From:      Fabrizio Parrella <fabrizio@nldesign.com>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mount / umount
Message-ID:  <200401061124.06997.fabrizio@nldesign.com>
In-Reply-To: <1073405230.664.5.camel@localhost>
References:  <200401061059.54892.fabrizio@nldesign.com> <1073405230.664.5.camel@localhost>

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# sysctl vfs.usermount
vfs.usermount: 1

any other ideas?

fabry

On Tuesday 06 January 2004 11:07 am, Ryan Sommers wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 09:59, Fabrizio Parrella wrote:
> > PLUS, if I try to mount the floppy disk by an user and not as root, I get
> > thie message:
> >
> > msdosfs: /dev/fd0: Operation not permitted
> >
> > I did as root:
> >
> > chmod -R 666 /dev/fd*
> > and also (a plus?)
> >
> > devfs ruleset 10
> > devfs rule add path "fd0*" group wheel mode 666
> > devfs rule applyset
> >
> > naturally the user that I use to mount the floppy is in the group wheel.
> >
> > uname -a
> > FreeBSD 127.0.0.1 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #3: Mon Jan  5 15:22:38
> > EST 2004     fabrizio@127.0.0.1:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL  i386
> >
> >
> >                         Fabrizio Parrella
>
> In order to be able to perform mounts without being root the
> vfs.usermount sysctl needs to be set to 1.



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