From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 25 03:19:06 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 665A516A4CE for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 03:19:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0973F43D5A for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 03:19:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com (frontend2.internal [10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 185D5C7833C for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 23:19:04 -0400 (EDT) X-Sasl-enc: 6UZfkTdO/2j+cSD417NzZt6EKsh/REqWq9tREY+NTO2q 1114399142 Received: from gumby.localhost (dsl-80-41-67-192.access.as9105.com [80.41.67.192]) by frontend2.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9399856F785 for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 23:19:02 -0400 (EDT) From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 04:19:02 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200504240224.01351.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> <44ekczzz4t.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <44ekczzz4t.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200504250419.02530.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Subject: Re: Allowing a group to use fstab mount-points X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 03:19:06 -0000 On Sunday 24 April 2005 21:41, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > RW writes: > > I have fstab entries for several devices that aren't mounted at boot, but > > when mounting as an ordinary user, I can only mount a device on a > > mount-point that I own. > > > > Is it possible to relax this so that any user in the operator group can > > make use of the same fstab entries? I know I could make separate entries > > for each user, but it's a bit cumbersome. > > Most people don't really want a user to be able to mount devices any > time, but only when that user is on the console. fbtab(5) and > equivalent functionality under X take care of that quite well. That's interesting, I wasn't aware of fbtab before. However it doesn't really help. As I read it, it only allows the ownership of devices to be changed, not mount-points. On a desktop machine, without remote access, there isn't really any significant problem with users mounting dvds etc. Actually, I normally mount devices as root, it's just that when other people (who are definitely never going to be in my wheel group) borrow my computer they make patronizing comments if this kind of thing isn't straightforward, and clean. Basically, what I'd like is for users to be able to mount certain devices from KDE, without going through hoops, or using strange mount-points.