Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 01:20:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Kersten <tomkersten98@yahoo.com> To: Wayne Pascoe <wayne@penguinpowered.org.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: easy mount question....i hope Message-ID: <20020820082023.9448.qmail@web10005.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <m2ptwdapm7.fsf@set.ehsrealtime.com>
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--- Wayne Pascoe <wayne@penguinpowered.org.uk> wrote: > Tom Kersten <tomkersten98@yahoo.com> writes: > > > 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. > > I think that you might want to look at the automount > daemon. It may > not solve all of your problems, but it will let you > know what you can > do easily. > > When you have amd running right, the user does not > need to mount the > device. They merely have to insert media and then > attempt to access > that media (floppy, cdrom, etc.) > Thanks for the reply, I actually have that set up already, but....I am looking for that "icon" thing....if I can't get it....I will survive...just trying to get as "fancy" as I can for the users...allowing them to use all the available options in the KDE menus....know what I mean? Someone mentioned "sudo" but I have read that it is insecure...not sure what to do.....any other ideas....???? thanks again for the reply, thomas kersten > HTH. > > -- > - Wayne Pascoe - > http://www.penguinpowered.org.uk/wayne/ > The thing is, I was POSITIVE that I wasn't > actually depressed, just that life had no > meaning and I was tired of living. > -- daystar on k5 > __________________________________________________ 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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