Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 17:35:55 +0100 (CET) From: Philippe CASIDY <pcasidy@worldnet.fr> To: gjb@comkey.com.au Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mounting CDROM (or removable media) by users Message-ID: <199902101635.RAA03064@greatoak.home> In-Reply-To: <19990210001221.19077.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au>
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On 10 Feb, Greg Black wrote: >> 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. My mistake not being clear on the first time. >> 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? You example is not very revelant because you are comparing two different system and it is very easy to find a workaround. Anyway, I like the sudo feature because as far as I understand, you can easily choose who can or cannot mount a device. I just want to know what is the technical reason why by default, only root can mount the cdrom. Thanks anyway Phil. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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