From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 19 8:46:12 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7CE737B401 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:46:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from catflap.home.slightlystrange.org (pc1-cmbg1-4-cust43.cmbg.cable.ntl.com [62.253.133.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7570543F75 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:46:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@slightlystrange.org) Received: from danielby by catflap.home.slightlystrange.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18lXM9-000J51-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:46:01 +0000 Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:46:01 +0000 From: Daniel Bye To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Regarding mounting filesystems... Message-ID: <20030219164601.GA72997@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> Reply-To: dan@slightlystrange.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Scanner: exiscan *18lXM9-000J51-00*1ng6woILEWY* (SlightlyStrange.org, Using NOD32 http://www.nod32.com) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 05:41:46PM +0100, Henrik W Lund wrote: > I'm just wondering how one can make it possible for anyone to mount, say a > CD-ROM or floppy disk, locally? I've played around with permissions on the > devices, on /sbin/mount, placement in groups and whatnot, but when my > ordinary user tries to mount the CD-ROM, all he gets is: > > cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Operation not permitted > > This seems to be the case no matter what the permissions are. I'm sure it's > a trivial thing, nevertheless it is one of which I am not aware. Can > anybody enlighten me? This is a FAQ: http://www.uk.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FLOPPYMOUNT -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3D73 AF47 D448 C5CA 88B4 0DCF 849C 1C33 3C48 2CDC _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message