From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 30 22:23:38 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 50E147A6 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 22:23:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from avasout07.plus.net (avasout07.plus.net [84.93.230.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5D27195 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 22:23:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from curlew.milibyte.co.uk ([84.92.153.232]) by avasout07 with smtp id jyLR1n00d516WCc01yLSdh; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 23:20:26 +0100 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=JIC1sq6b c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=lfSX4pPLp9EkufIcToJk/A==:117 a=lfSX4pPLp9EkufIcToJk/A==:17 a=D7rCoLxHAAAA:8 a=0Bzu9jTXAAAA:8 a=HC6HIM2niXgA:10 a=sdvtPWGM67wA:10 a=ZTb9aqGL9YkA:10 a=Q9fys5e9bTEA:10 a=e4bue0vzAAAA:8 a=472REFwXivMIK62D5I4A:9 a=PUjeQqilurYA:10 a=cP9G7remsaIA:10 Received: from curlew.lan ([192.168.1.13]) by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1WUO5X-0002G2-8h; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 23:20:25 +0100 From: Mike Clarke To: mexas@bris.ac.uk Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 23:20:22 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (FreeBSD/9.1-RELEASE-p10; KDE/4.10.5; amd64; ; ) References: <201403302157.s2ULvkkH023643@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <201403302157.s2ULvkkH023643@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201403302320.22409.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.1.13 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on curlew.lan X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 Subject: Re: untrusted user mount usb, followed handbook, still no luck Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 22:23:38 -0000 On Sunday 30 Mar 2014 22:57:46 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > Perhaps the devfs.conf man page is outdated. > I see lots of examples on the net from 5-10 > years ago, all similar to devfs.conf style, > e.g.: > > http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/freebsd-allow-ordinary-users-mount-cd-rom-dvds > -usb-removabledevice/ > > own /dev/da0 root:operator > perm /dev/da0 0666 devfs.conf is used to configure devices at boot time so will only apply if the USB device is connected at boot time. > which is different to the handbook, which > has: > > [localrules=5] > add path 'da*' mode 0660 group operator That refers to devfs.rules which is used to configure devices as they are attached after booting. -- Mike Clarke