Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:51:22 +0900 From: "Luke Kearney" <lukek@meibin.net> To: "Desmond Lee" <desmond.lee@shaw.ca>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: allowing non root users to mount Message-ID: <005101c36de0$d28c0740$230aa8c0@MAGOME> References: <000101c36de0$9c1883a0$6501a8c0@croydon>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Desmond Lee" <desmond.lee@shaw.ca> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 12:49 PM Subject: allowing non root users to mount > Hello > > I'm trying to set up my system so that it can automatically mount some > file systems on boot. > > However, can you do this on freeBSD? I mean, with RedHat it does it for > you so that you have a floppy and cdrom icon on your desktop. But can > you do that w/ freeBSD? I don't think so cause if there is no floppy/zip > disk/ or cdRom in the drive when you mount, it will return you an error. > So trying to mount these on boot is not right... is this correct? > > So far, I've just set up the /etc/fstab file so that the root can just > type "mount /floppy" or "mount /zip" or whatever to mount the drives as > needed. However, only root can do this and no other user is allowed to > do mounts. > > # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump > Pass# > /dev/ad1s1b none swap sw > 0 0 > /dev/ad1s1a / ufs rw > 1 1 > /dev/ad1s1f /usr ufs rw > 2 2 > /dev/ad1s1e /var ufs rw > 2 2 > /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 > 0 > /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos rw,noauto > 0 0 > /dev/afd0s4 /zip msdos rw,noauto > 0 0 > proc /proc procfs rw > 0 0 > > Is there any way that I can get no root users to mount files systems > like cdrom, zip and floppy? > > I tried to look this up and some people said to use the "user" option in > the /etc/fstab file, but this didn't work. Using the "nousid" option > didn't work either. > > Thanks in advance. > > Regards > > Desmond > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Hi, Have you tried changing the permissions on the devices that you want non root users to be able to mount ? I seem to remember that the are only mountable by root as default but you might try changing to a more permissive setup for those devices. HTH
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