Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 14:12:37 -0500 From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@rochester.rr.com> To: bart.lateur@skynet.be (Bart Lateur) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, leisner@rochester.rr.com Subject: Re: mounting a cdrom as a normal user. Message-ID: <200004011912.OAA02255@rochester.rr.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 Apr 2000 17:02:21 GMT." <38e726f9.857708@relay.skynet.be>
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The linux mount program is setuid and has a user fstab option.
I definitely like it...it solves this problem...
I have cdrom entries in my fstab of noauto,user
and don't have this problem.
Marty Leisner
bart.lateur@skynet.be (Bart Lateur) writes on Sat, 01 Apr 2000 17:02:21 GMT
> On Sat, 1 Apr 2000 03:15:36 -0800 (PST), Derrick Baumer wrote:
>
> >> Using fbsd 3.4-release, I would like to give one user the
ability to
> >> mount/umount cdrom's and floppies, but not for any other user.
> >
> >The base installation does that for you quite nicely. The user is
> >called "root". :)
>
> Don't think of it as a joke. If I get this correctly, the question is:
>
> How do you let one user insert, remove, and switch CD's without
> granting him root privileges?
>
> I can imagine one way, using SUID scripts owned by root, run by that
> user. But as I'm still pretty green, I'm not sure if it will work; or if
> it is even necessary. One thing you could make sure of, is that these
> commands are issued from the local terminal. Remotelyremoving a CD makes
> not much sense.
>
> --
> Bart.
>
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