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Date:      Tue, 15 Apr 2003 09:31:24 +0200
From:      CARTER Anthony <a.carter@cordis.lu>
To:        epbox@yandex.ru, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /dev/...
Message-ID:  <200304150931.24484.a.carter@intrasoft.lu>
In-Reply-To: <200304151058.41895.epbox@yandex.ru>
References:  <200304141536.05035.a.carter@intrasoft.lu> <200304150900.59043.epbox@yandex.ru> <200304151058.41895.epbox@yandex.ru>

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You have to be owner (not group owner) of the mount point from what I can work 
out.

Anthony

On Tuesday 15 April 2003 08:58, Vladik Kozin wrote:
> > Hi! What if I'd like ordinary users to be able to mount /dev/fd0, for
> > instance, onto a common dir located in /mnt (/mnt/floppy)?
> > I made mkdir -m 755 /mnt/floppy as root. When I try to mount fd0 onto
> > this dir as an ordinary user I get "msdos: /dev/fd0: Operation not
> > permitted" while when doing the same onto a dir that this user owns
> > everything goes fine. _______________________________________________
>
> Of course I checked the FAQ & did everything as said there. Specifically:
> #su
> # sysctl -w vfs.usermount=1
> # chmod 666 /dev/fd0
> #mkdir -m 755 /mnt/floppy
> bash$ mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
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