From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 29 02:52:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E383616A4DF for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:52:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fysical@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 623AF43D4C for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:52:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fysical@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id 13so1092298nzn for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:52:22 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=pztBt8D7XNS7LfeYPWZ2YxSt8mlUw4CuAqXU/Y/8NTLMfZZW4MUtIZjwxK443KgQq9qcgNsSrQJmXiJlIxuyZrFS2/+lJwLeESIKcv1COadDpCVfTWdJcwZwosqiyGF5SrQSfnW+W33v5LwwijJV2sKHXP8hea+Tiv53BT9Ib7w= Received: by 10.64.209.6 with SMTP id h6mr7862811qbg; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:52:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.124.13 with HTTP; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:52:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <73d604760608281952p5ff48d46w4fe45cb291fb2e4d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 08:22:22 +0530 From: "Viswas Nair" To: ajm In-Reply-To: <20060827203409.GA710@powerfull.bsd> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <73d604760608270741k4998723au81b258ef17b41c70@mail.gmail.com> <20060827203409.GA710@powerfull.bsd> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User permissions to mount CDROM X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:52:24 -0000 didn't help :( On 8/28/06, ajm 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" >