Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 23:41:57 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Automounting CD-ROMs Message-ID: <199511022241.XAA16222@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <12345.815343386@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 2, 95 12:16:26 pm
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Linux has a concent of "user" mount, so any user can generate a > > mount /cdrom command (if the entry for /cdrom is user). > > > > I've never seen it, its very useful...does FreeBSD have it? > > Not really, no. You could make a suid mount wrapper or something, > but I'm sure the security weenies here would SCREAM! :-) There's no reason to scream. You can force the wrapper to mount nosuid,noexec if you like, and you can make it executable only to the members of a particular group. I personally prefer typing "do-mount cd" anyway instead of "su root; mount -r -t cd9660 /dev/cd0a /cdrom; exit". -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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