From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 25 9:43:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from postmarq.mu.edu (hermes.mu.edu [134.48.1.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD68537B479 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 09:43:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from marquette.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by postmarq.mu.edu (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id G2ZVSV00.5XN for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:43:43 -0500 From: Jeremy Vandenhouten To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <867683866377.866377867683@marquette.edu> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:43:43 -0500 X-Mailer: Netscape Webmail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Language: en Subject: Fstab and users mounting drives X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems alot of people have asked this question very recently. I believe some modifications to /etc/fstab are in order, but I'm not sure exactly what, or if it is definitely possible to do so as a "user." If anyone would be able to provide some viable answers to this question and post it to the list it would be greatly appreciated... Btw- this should also fix the problem with the drives not appearing in X windowmanagers. ----- Original Message ----- From: Joel Dinel Date: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 10:22 am Subject: FSTAB > How can I permit normal users to mount CDROMS and floppies in > 4.1.1 without simply making the device world accessible? I > remember under Linux the parameter was USERS. Doesn't seem to be > the same in BSD. > > Can you please reply to me directly on this ? > > Thanks! > > -- > > Joel Dinel > kint@videotron.ca > > > 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