Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:42:55 +1000 From: Malcolm Fitzgerald <mfitzgerald@pacific.net.au> To: Viswas Nair <fysical@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: User permissions to mount CDROM Message-ID: <7be498a2de4d7610057497a795028146@pacific.net.au> In-Reply-To: <73d604760608281952p5ff48d46w4fe45cb291fb2e4d@mail.gmail.com> References: <73d604760608270741k4998723au81b258ef17b41c70@mail.gmail.com> <20060827203409.GA710@powerfull.bsd> <73d604760608281952p5ff48d46w4fe45cb291fb2e4d@mail.gmail.com>
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>> 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 This tutorial helped me: User mounting of removable devices on FreeBSD http://caia.swin.edu.au/reports/041130A/ Malcolm Fitzgerald
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