Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 16:29:14 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1050269355.841ea4@mired.org> To: "Randy Grafton" <rgrafton@indatacorp.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fbtab and cdrom Message-ID: <16019.16170.409151.224235@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <000b01c2fedd$2a46dd70$7764a8c0@ITDept> References: <000b01c2fedd$2a46dd70$7764a8c0@ITDept>
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In <000b01c2fedd$2a46dd70$7764a8c0@ITDept>, Randy Grafton <rgrafton@indatacorp.com> typed: > I've just installed 4.8 and am having some trouble with non-root users > mounting cdroms. I have following entries in /etc/fbtab: [...] > My goal is that a non-root user can log in to the console and execute a > script that mounts the cdrom, copies its contents to a folder on the system > and then unmounts the cdrom. > Any and all help is appreciated. Normal users are - by default - not permitted to mount file systems. Anyone who can mount a file system can get a root shell. To enable this, you need to do: # sysctl vfs.usermount=1 Add a "vfs.usermount=1" line to /etc/sysctl.conf to get this done at automatically at boot time. See the FAQ at <URL: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FLOPPYMOUNT > for more information. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.
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