From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 1 04:29:31 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A12F916A4CE for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 04:29:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from asclepius.uwa.edu.au (asclepius3.uwa.edu.au [130.95.128.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 148F543D45 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 04:29:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from zanchey@mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au) Received: from asclepius.kas (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by asclepius.uwa.edu.au (Postfix) with SMTP id D13231843A6 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 12:29:29 +0800 (WST) Received: from asclepius (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by asclepius.prekas (Postfix) with SMTP id CA51B18430B for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 12:29:29 +0800 (WST) X-UWA-Client-IP: 130.95.13.9 (UWA) Received: from mooneye.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (mooneye.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au [130.95.13.9]) by asclepius.input (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDB571843DF for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 12:29:29 +0800 (WST) Received: by mooneye.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Postfix, from userid 801) id DF6D317F1E; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 12:29:28 +0800 (WST) Received: from mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au [130.95.13.18]) by mooneye.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7317917E2C; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 12:29:28 +0800 (WST) Received: from zanchey (helo=localhost) by mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au with local-esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1CvpfM-0001c4-00; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 12:29:28 +0800 Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 12:29:28 +0800 (WST) From: David Adam To: Stan Sorochan In-Reply-To: <29133.1107185763@www21.gmx.net> Message-ID: References: <29133.1107185763@www21.gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: David Adam X-SpamTest-Info: Profile: Formal (206/050130) X-SpamTest-Info: Profile: Detect Hard [UCS 290904] X-SpamTest-Info: Profile: SysLog X-SpamTest-Info: Profile: Marking Spam - Subject (UCS) [02-08-04] X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 2.0.0 [0125], KAS/Release cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: question on the FAQ X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 04:29:31 -0000 Stan, On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Stan Sorochan wrote: > The FAQ on freebsd contains information on the following question: > How do I let ordinary users mount floppies, CDROMs and other removable > media? > > The instructions that the answer gives only work on FreeBSD 4.X > > Has anyone submitted instructions for solving this problem on FreeBSD 5.2 > etc? Do you predict this part would be updated any time soon? I can't see a PR for this, and it gets asked a LOT on -newbies, so I'll write a patch at lunchtime today. In the interim, you might want to check out http://caia.swin.edu.au/reports/041130A/ and http://sig9.com/node/25 which will tell you more than you ever wanted to know about user-mounting filesystems. Cheers, David Adam zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au