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Date:      Thu, 17 Aug 2000 21:31:49 +0530
From:      Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To:        Charlie <charlie@infoworks.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]" <sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
Subject:   Re: How to allow user mounts?
Message-ID:  <20000817213149.A6642@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
In-Reply-To: <200008171523.KAA20881@smtp.intop.net>; from charlie@infoworks.net on Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 10:28:58AM -0500
References:  <y9l4s4k56ic.fsf@sams.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> <200008171523.KAA20881@smtp.intop.net>

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Charlie said on Aug 17, 2000 at 10:28:58:
> On 17 Aug 00, at 16:03, Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] wrote:
> 
> > 
> > For the machines in our pool, I'd like to allow users to mount CD-ROMs
> > themselves to a fixed mount point, say /cdrom.  Is this possible on
> > FreeBSD?  (I know it is on Linux via a special /etc/fstab option.)
> > 
> > -- 
> > Cheers =8-} Mike
> > Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla
> 
> If you're trying to grant access to console users, have a look at 
> /etc/fbtab (not a typo).  man 5 fbtab will allow you to set 
> permissions on /dev/whatever for console users.  For remote users 
> shelling in, you might be better off looking at sudo, or another 
> wrapper program that allows certain users to perform tasks that 
> usually only root can do.

Also see the faq entry
http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/admin.html#AEN2788


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