Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 00:31:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Kersten <tomkersten98@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: easy mount question....i hope Message-ID: <20020820073130.55540.qmail@web10003.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hello, Is it possible to dynamically changed mount points (upon login, or mount request possibly)? If so, is this a bad practice? Is there a better way to solve the following problem? The reason I ask is that I am trying to make it possible for any user on my system to create a floppy (or cdrom) icon on their KDE desktop by right-clicking and going to "create new->floppy device" and be able to access that device. I currently have it set up where a user can type the mount_msdos (or cd9660) command in the CLI, but would like it to be GUI-based, as some are not very familiar with UNIX. I have scoured the lists and sites, but have had no FreeBSD-specific answers. I have read the handbook and have done the vfs.usermount=1 command, which helpted, but does not solve the GUI-based question, as it only allows them to use the CLI method of mounting a filesysytem. It appears that in Linux you can add "users" to the filesystem's entry in the /etc/fstab entry, but...this is not an option in BSD...to my knowledge. My assessment of the situation is that the user must "own" the mountpoint folder. The entry in my /etc/fstab file points fd0c (and acd0c) to /mnt/floppy * /mnt/cdrom, but I am unable to mount to these directories unless I do so as root or I change the ownership of the folder to the user attempting to mount to that point. I am able to mount to any folder the person owns and mount either filesystem type, but am trying to figure out a way to make it as easy as possible for GUI-only users to take full advantage of all devices on the system. Any ideas or help on this topic is greatly appreciated. Also, please reply to this email directly, as I am not currently a member of the mailing list.... Thank you in advance, Thomas Kersten tomkersten98@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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