Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 08:26:41 +0530 From: "Girish Venkatachalam" <girishvenkatachalam@gmail.com> To: "Viswas Nair" <fysical@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User permissions to mount CDROM Message-ID: <7938ae610608281956vf70fbdj5bd7f4252736df86@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <73d604760608270741k4998723au81b258ef17b41c70@mail.gmail.com> References: <73d604760608270741k4998723au81b258ef17b41c70@mail.gmail.com>
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On 8/27/06, Viswas Nair <fysical@gmail.com> 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 > Did u try adding the uid to the mount options in fstab? For instance, -o uid=1000. In fstab, u have to say, ro,uid=1000 or something. HTH, Girish
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