Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 11:16:01 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: permissions Message-ID: <200405191116.01385.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <1084989933.2431.7.camel@localhost> References: <1084989933.2431.7.camel@localhost>
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On Wednesday 19 May 2004 11:05 am, arden wrote: > hi all > > i only have two users on my bsd box me as a standard user and root > > the prob ive got at the mo is that only root can mount my cd drive > how do i halter its permissions so standard user can use it > > on a similar vain on my linux boxes i can su root but i get a message > saying "sorry" is this a bsd thing ? > It sounds like you may need to add your personal user name to the wheel group in /etc/group. You don't "su root" but just "su". I have never worried about mounting a CD-ROM from the user because I usually have a console session running as root. I use "su -" to switch to root because that invokes the root environment. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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