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Date:      Wed, 10 Feb 1999 10:12:21 +1000
From:      Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au>
To:        Philippe CASIDY <pcasidy@worldnet.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mounting CDROM (or removable media) by users 
Message-ID:  <19990210001221.19077.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199902091708.SAA00848@greatoak>  of Tue, 09 Feb 1999 18:08:32 %2B0100
References:  <199902091708.SAA00848@greatoak> 

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> My question was more about why it is not possible than how to solve
> this.

Forgive me for failing to understand that you didn't want to
solve the problem you were complaining about.

> To solve this, I have read about sudo tools and there maybe a
> possibility with amd.
> But what is the reason about this behavior? As I said, under Debian
> Linux, you just have to add the option 'user' in the fstab file. Why no
> such options under FreeBSD? Anyway, I found the solution with sudo more
> flexible but I am just curious to know what is the reason about not
> being able to do this directly with the system. ;-)

This is like complaining that `ls' is not spelled `dir' since
that's what you were used to with MSDOS.  If you prefer a system
that does things differently, why not use that system?  If you'd
prefer to see FreeBSD do something differently, why not spend an
hour or two to develop the feature that you want and submit it
to the FreeBSD core team for possible integration in a future
release?

-- 
Greg Black <gjb@acm.org>


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