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Date:      Fri, 22 May 1998 18:47:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:      perl <perl@netmug.org>
To:        "William R. Somsky" <somsky@annwn.phys.washington.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to let users access removable media?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980522184517.25801A-100000@netmug.org>
In-Reply-To: <199805222328.QAA00295@annwn.phys.washington.edu>

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fbtab - change device protection upon login

Check out the fbtab(5) man page for more info.

Michael

On Fri, 22 May 1998, William R. Somsky wrote:

> I've just recently set up a couple of FreeBSD systems here at 
> the UW Physics department, and I need to be able to set them
> up so that the users can access the floppy and (ATAPI) zip
> drives.  For mtools access, I suppose I can just make /dev/[r]fd0
> and /dev/[r]wfd0* be world readable and writable, but is this the
> best way to go about it?  Should something else be used?  And I doubt
> that it's immenent, but what about when someone wants to mount a cd-rom?
> I'd like to be able to handle this in a relatively secure fashion w/out
> compromising the systems.  Anyone been through this before or/have any
> suggestions? 
> 
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