From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Tue Aug 29 02:58:26 2006
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
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 8909916A4DA
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:58:26 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from girishvenkatachalam@gmail.com)
Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.236])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C7A143D46
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:58:25 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from girishvenkatachalam@gmail.com)
Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 68so522498wri
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:58:25 -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:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references;
	b=p/9eUGkNpKo9n0YFXPkYFMt1kWuE1IVrUg19HUNocRkhmZEGOME6fisi4B7B0T7fvl9/YXt6bJ0sflNHKEAAvgybLqmZKWs3dQpPe4HGIsmcidfxxRiEsBGwFOn3aGMpWWgXKzJksT7Wg+cXUwMLlt7L5BN8B16o05ByXY/S+ug=
Received: by 10.90.100.6 with SMTP id x6mr1347340agb;
	Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:56:41 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.90.98.3 with HTTP; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:56:41 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <7938ae610608281956vf70fbdj5bd7f4252736df86@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 08:26:41 +0530
From: "Girish Venkatachalam" <girishvenkatachalam@gmail.com>
To: "Viswas Nair" <fysical@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <73d604760608270741k4998723au81b258ef17b41c70@mail.gmail.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline
References: <73d604760608270741k4998723au81b258ef17b41c70@mail.gmail.com>
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 <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:58:26 -0000

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