Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 11:50:26 +0100 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: desktops and mounting Message-ID: <20010104115026.B10414@lpt.ens.fr>
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Recently while setting up a FreeBSD machine for desktop use, and watching linux users on their machines, it seemed to me that everything that can be done on linux can be done equally easily on FreeBSD -- except non-root mounting of removable media (like floppies, CDROMs). You can't allow user mounts simply by adding a "user" option in /etc/fstab, and simple point-and-clicking in KDE/GNOME doesn't work either. This can be pretty important to some people. There is a workaround in the FAQ, but it's fairly complicated and the end result is you can mount it to a mount point owned by you but you still can't create an fstab entry and issue a simple command like mount ~/cdrom -- you have to write the full mount command including the device etc. It may be possible to configure KDE or GNOME to do the right thing -- I haven't tried -- but even so, one may have to do this individually for every user. Also, the FAQ entry issues dire warnings about system security and so on. Any thoughts? Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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