Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 16:25:32 -0400 From: Nicolas Blais <nb_root@videotron.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: all users to mount cd's Message-ID: <200505201625.32542.nb_root@videotron.ca> In-Reply-To: <428E442E.7090900@houston.rr.com> References: <428E442E.7090900@houston.rr.com>
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On May 20, 2005 04:10 pm, Ryan Winograd wrote: > Is there an easy way to allow any user to mount cd's? > Well, yes. I have proper perms on cd devs and if a user creates > a directory he owns he can mount from command line w/ sudo. > > There are, however, some requiremnents i am trying to meet. > > I would like the mounting process to be much easier. I am using > KDE and would like to have the cd's mount automatically so that > the users don't have to know how to use the command line. How > can I accomplish this? > > Thanks in advance for all advice, > Ryan w > Everything in that FAQ still works : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FLOPPYMOUNT Basically, type sysctl vfs.usermount=1 or add the line vfs.usermount=1 to /etc/sysctl.conf so that it changes itself at boot. Make sure your cdrom has the correct permission in /etc/devfs.conf (example : perm acd0 777). Make a user-readable folder in the users home directory (/home/myself/cdrom) Make a fstab entry in /etc/fstab for that user (/dev/acd0 /home/myself/cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0) Make an device icon on the KDE desktop with that user's fstab entry (found in the Device tab). Anyone sees a mistake in this, please fix, Nicolas.
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