Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 22:56:18 +0100 From: Markus Hoenicka <markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems mounting camera to download pics .... Message-ID: <b0318e60767010b98bf81bda1a297462@mhoenicka.de> In-Reply-To: <5161492.5f10mYJAFX@amd.asgard.uk> References: <54EF5A28.8010605@hiwaay.net> <CA%2BtpaK0mQjSNRnFsjiE7v1AY39jgtoPUfNvMdyqyUZv0qo1cWg@mail.gmail.com> <54EFA8DE.9050909@hiwaay.net> <5161492.5f10mYJAFX@amd.asgard.uk>
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Am 2015-02-27 22:33, schrieb Dave: > On Thursday 26 February 2015 17:14:38 William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> On 02/26/15 15:54, Adam Vande More wrote: >> > On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 11:38 AM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam@hiwaay.net> >> > >> > wrote: >> >> .... I am trying to mount my digital camera to download some pics I just >> >> took. When I do this as root, it works AOK & I got the pics off. However, >> >> when I changed my fstab file to (supposedly) allow regular users to mount >> >> that directory, the mount command fails: >> >> >> >> >> >> [wam@kabini1, ~, 11:33:11am] 530 % mount /media/flash/ >> >> mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Operation not permitted >> >> [wam@kabini1, ~, 11:35:58am] 530 % >> >> >> >> >> >> relevant lines from my fstab file: >> >> >> >> >> >> /dev/da0s1 /media/flash msdosfs >> >> rw,sync,noauto,longnames,-Lru_RU.UTF-8,users 0 0 >> >> # /dev/da0s1 /media/flash msdosfs >> >> rw,sync,noauto,longnames,-Lru_RU.UTF-8 0 0 >> >> >> >> >> >> FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p9 >> >> >> >> Not a huge issue, since I can get 'er done as root, but I don't see why >> >> this shouldn't be feasible as a regular user .... TIA & have a nice, >> >> snowy >> >> (here) day ;-) .... >> > >> > sysctl vfs.usermount=1 >> >> Already tried, didn't work, however someone else suggested setuid on >> /sbin/(u)mount & that worked .... Thanks :-) .... > > Rather than giving every user root level access to mount (possible > security > issue), the more correct way is to create devfs rules, see the FreeBSD > Handbook: > > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/usb-disks.html > I've done something along these lines to make my camera accessible from FreeBSD, see this blog entry here: http://www.mhoenicka.de/system-cgi/blog/index.php?itemid=2234 hope this helps Markus -- Markus Hoenicka http://www.mhoenicka.de AQ score 38
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