Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 06:55:35 +0100 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de> To: Kevin Smith <smithcam@adelphia.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how do I permit ordinary users to mound SCSI devices ? Message-ID: <41DE2457.20508@incubus.de> In-Reply-To: <41DE22AE.50101@adelphia.net> References: <41DE22AE.50101@adelphia.net>
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Kevin Smith wrote: > How do I permit ordinary users to mound SCSI devices ? > > As suggested in the FAQ, section 9, I am able to allow members of > operator group mount the cdrom by setting sysctl -w vfs.usrmount=1 > This does not appear to work with SCSI devices. (ex: /dev/da0s2) > I get the error: > > mount -t msdos /dev/da0s2 ~/ipod > msdosfs: /dev/da0s2: Permission denied the last time I was bitten by that issue, the mount point had to be owned by the user (group write access apparently isn't enough). that's a bit of a problem with things like gui mounters and I hope that that behaviour will be changed sometime in the future. at least I can't see any security problems with a user being able to mount over a mountpoint where he only has group write access. mkb.
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