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Date:      Tue, 29 Aug 2006 07:26:37 +0200
From:      Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein.h@lvor.halvorsen.cc>
To:        Viswas Nair <fysical@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: User permissions to mount CDROM
Message-ID:  <44F3D00D.1090702@lvor.halvorsen.cc>
In-Reply-To: <73d604760608270741k4998723au81b258ef17b41c70@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <73d604760608270741k4998723au81b258ef17b41c70@mail.gmail.com>

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Viswas Nair wrote:
> I have been trying to figure out how to give users to mount CD rom and have
> been largely unsuccessful. Here are a few things I tried:
> 1) Added user to the 4th field (options) in /etc/fstab
> 2) Added vfs.usermount=1 to  sysctl.conf
> 3) Created a group called optical and added the root and alpha to it
> 4) Added following lines to devfs,conf :
> own /dev/acd0 root:optical
> perm /dev/acd0 0770
> own /dev/acd1 root:optical
> perm /dev/acd1 0770

User must have access to the mount point as well, eg. /cdrom.


	Svein Halvor


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