Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 00:45:38 -0500 (EST) From: Drifter <drifter@stratos.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Mounting a floppy, ZIP drive, or partition as a non-root user Message-ID: <199801260545.AAA00895@stratos.net>
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Hi,
I have a quick question about mounting file systems as a non-
root user. Since I am confident in the security of my home system, I would
like the ability for my "drifter" account to mount and unmount my floppy
at will.
Unfortunately, I have not been able to figure it out. Yes, I am
being lazy in not wanting to su root all the time, and when I am in X, I
don't like switching between graphics mode and text mode VTs.
mtools are useful for most floppy applications, but not my UFS
ZIP drive or cdrom.
So, without writing an expect script, is there a way to allow
non-root users to mount a floppy drive?
Here is what I have tried so far:
1) make sure /dev/fd0* (all forms of fd0, such as fd0a and fd0.1440)
have permissions set to rw for user, group, and other.
2) /mnt's permissions are set to 777 (I suppose 666 would suffice
as well)
3) I checked /sbin/mount: permissions allow user, group, and other
read/execute status. I took that one step further and added
suid and sgid bits to that and /sbin/mount_msdos, making
sure I chown'd the files root.bin first.
4) And (oh yeah) I tried "man mount" and "man mount_msdos".
Unfortunately, there appeared to be no helpful information on
that particular topic.
5) I checked the file permissions on /etc/fstab, though I
didn't think it would help. It didn't.
6) I even tried the suid route on /lkm/msdos_mod.o, as well, though
I don't think that has anything to do with the actual mounting.
In all cases, drifter's attempts to mount the device failed, though
root can of course do so.
drifter$ mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
msdos: /dev/fd0: Permission denied
The reason I want to do this is to allow user "drifter" to
mount and unmount a floppy (or ZIP) drive by point-and-click while in an
X-session.
Also, user "drifter" is a member of group wheel. I am using
FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE.
If anyone can help, I would appreciate it.
-Drifter
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