Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 00:54:57 +0200 From: Norbert Augenstein <norbert@augenstein.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: hanspeter_roth@hotmail.com Subject: Re: user-mounting FAT Message-ID: <20020613005457.42bf1a0f.norbert@augenstein.net> In-Reply-To: <20020612234700.A774@gicco.cablecom.ch> References: <20020612234700.A774@gicco.cablecom.ch>
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Hi, set vfs.usermount=1 in sysctl.conf for a constant change [auge@seth auge]$ cat /etc/sysctl.conf # $FreeBSD: src/etc/sysctl.conf,v 1.1.2.2 2001/12/19 17:52:17 ru Exp $# # This file is read when going to multi-user and its contents piped thru# ``sysctl'' to adjust kernel values. ``man 5 sysctl.conf'' for details.# vfs.usermount=1 [auge@seth auge]$ sysctl vfs.usermount vfs.usermount: 1 [auge@seth auge]$ you can mount on every directory you are the owner of. check permissions for read/write of it and ALSO in /dev , the user must have rw permission to the device to mount [auge@seth auge]$ egrep /mnt/win2k /etc/fstab /dev/ad0s1 /mnt/win2k msdos rw,noauto 0 0 [auge@seth auge]$ ls -l /dev |grep ad0s1 crw-rw---- 2 root operator 116, 0x00020002 May 5 10:28 ad0s1 ...snip... [auge@seth auge]$ id uid=666(auge) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel), 5(operator), 69(network) auge if you do not want usermount after reboot, use sysctl command: [auge@seth auge]$ sysctl vfs.usermount=1 On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 23:47:00 +0200 Hanspeter Roth <hanspeter_roth@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > is there something like a user-mount for a FAT partition > that lets an ordinary user (non-root) write on the partition > if he has mounted it himself? > This works on Linux. On FreeBsd I could only write on a FAT > partition by root itself. > > -Hanspeter > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the > message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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