Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 17:43:28 -0500 From: Joe Altman <fj@panix.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: lrh@alum.mit.edu Subject: Re: [FAQ pointer] Re: Non-root access to peripheral file devices Message-ID: <20031118224328.GA2681@panix.com> In-Reply-To: <44islh4kv1.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <200311180945.35813.lrh@alum.mit.edu> <44islh4kv1.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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[copying the original poster in my somewhat related followup] On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 01:01:06PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Dr Lyman Hazelton <lrh@alum.mit.edu> writes: > > > Perhaps this is discussed somewhere, but so far I haven't found > > anything that helps. > > "How do I let ordinary users mount floppies, CDROMs and other removable media?" > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FLOPPYMOUNT These conditions are "anded", right? While I'm asking silly questions: is there a way to exclude certain devices or directories from the effects of updating world? In my experience, it seems rare that MAKEDEV must be run, but it would be nice if /var/mail were left at 1777 across updates; a bonus if, once I changed perms around on a device like the cdrom, it stayed changed. I'm thinking along the lines of the ignore categories in pkgtools.conf...
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