From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 20 09:24:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA03506 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 09:24:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA03501 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 09:24:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA23061; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 09:23:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 09:23:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: jm7996@devrycols.edu cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mount for users In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, James A. Mutter wrote: > Is there any way to allow normal users to mount / unmount drives? > I've looked at the man pages for mount, mount_msdos, and mount_nfs. > > I've got a single machine here and it's just a pain in the arse for me to > su and then mount, and such. I'd like to do this without changing > permissions/groups on any of the binaries. I'd imagine that has to be a > configuration option for this, but it has so far escaped me. i don't think freebsd supports this. Are you trying to free up the floppy drive? Allowing everyone to dismount all disks is bad... the first thing someone will do is dismount /. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message