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Date:      Tue, 20 Aug 2002 14:19:34 +0200
From:      Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz>
To:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: not able to mount devices as normal user?
Message-ID:  <20020820121934.GM389@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
In-Reply-To: <1029714373.720.2.camel@messias.netcabo.pt>
References:  <3D5EFE0E.298AB5AC@buffalo.edu> <1029714373.720.2.camel@messias.netcabo.pt>

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> Subject: Re: not able to mount devices as normal user?
> From: André Ramos <andre.ramos@netcabo.pt>
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Date: 19 Aug 2002 00:46:13 +0100
> 
> On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 02:53, Ron Weatherston wrote:
> > I'm not able to mount devices (such as a CD-ROM drive) as a normal user
> > despite the fact that I own the mount point that I'm trying to mount to.
    ...

> Add the line
> %users  ALL=/sbin/mount /cdrom,/sbin/umount /cdrom
> to the /usr/local/etc/sudoers file.

    this implies you have sudo (/usr/ports/security/sudo) installed.
    you should be warned that this software has a pretto poor security
    record, and definitely should not be used on computers accessible
    from internet. you might want to try op /usr/ports/security/op)
    instead.

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