From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 23 13:48: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.alpha.net.au (mail2.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 122BC37B9C6 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 13:47:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from freebsd.freebsd.org (surry-pool-219.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.219] (may be forged)) by mail.alpha.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA07430; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 08:48:51 +1100 From: Danny To: John Cochran , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: user mounting /cdrom Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 08:48:06 +1100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: <200002232108.QAA13800@jdcochran.fiawol.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00022508494605.00331@freebsd.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, - to prevent users from using su . - change the root password - setup sudo - run visudo to configure sudo On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, John Cochran wrote: > From: "Dennis I. Kovarsky" wrote: > > > QUESTION: How can you allow users (better yet - groups) to mount /cdrom > > without having to su? > > > > TESTED: sounds like sysctl is the way to go. But... Created /etc/rc.sysctl > > with sysctl -w vfs.generic.usermount=1 in there... rebooted... no luck. > > > > Any ideas? Am I gonna have to write my own mount? ;) > > Try using sudo. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message