Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 08:22:22 +0530 From: "Viswas Nair" <fysical@gmail.com> To: ajm <ajm91qw@sbcglobal.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User permissions to mount CDROM Message-ID: <73d604760608281952p5ff48d46w4fe45cb291fb2e4d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060827203409.GA710@powerfull.bsd> References: <73d604760608270741k4998723au81b258ef17b41c70@mail.gmail.com> <20060827203409.GA710@powerfull.bsd>
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didn't help :( On 8/28/06, ajm <ajm91qw@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 08:11:16PM +0530, Viswas Nair wrote: > > I have been trying to figure out how to give users to mount CD rom and > have > > been largely unsuccessful. Here are a few things I tried: > > 1) Added user to the 4th field (options) in /etc/fstab > > 2) Added vfs.usermount=1 to sysctl.conf > > 3) Created a group called optical and added the root and alpha to it > > 4) Added following lines to devfs,conf : > > own /dev/acd0 root:optical > > perm /dev/acd0 0770 > > own /dev/acd1 root:optical > > perm /dev/acd1 0770 > > 5) Rebooted machine and tried to mount /dev/acd0 into /cdrom and it > failed > > with the message: > > got the error message: /dev/acd0 > > Try the following: create a subdirectory in the users home directory. > example: /home/steven/cdrom > > mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0 /home/steven/cdrom > > also, you can change the permission to 550 > (read/execute by owner and group) no need for write permission. > make sure that your users are part of the optical group. > One more thing...users will not be able to mount anything to /cdrom > since it will belong to root/wheel. Hope this helped you. > > -- > FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE i386 GENERIC > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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