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Date:      Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:03:35 +0100 (CET)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Trouble with mounting USB stick as user
Message-ID:  <200602082003.k18K3ZQJ077077@lurza.secnetix.de>
In-Reply-To: <dsdfe8$1sd$1@sea.gmane.org>

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martinko <martinkov@pobox.sk> wrote:
 > Oliver Fromme wrote:
 > > martinko wrote:
 > > > Oliver Fromme wrote:
 > > > > To enable user mounts, there are three conditions:
 > > > > 1.  sysctl vfs.usermount=1
 > > > > 2.  The user must have read+write permission on the device
 > > > >     which is to be mounted.  This is usually accomplished
 > > > >     by creating a special group for this device.
 > > > > 3.  The user must _own_ the mountpoint (r/w permission is
 > > > >     not sufficient).
 > > > 
 > > > [...]
 > > > $ ll /dev/ad0
 > > > crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0,  96 Feb  8 18:27 /dev/ad0
 > > 
 > > Condition #2 isn't met:  The device must be "rw" for for
 > > the user (in this case for the operator group).  Note
 > > that "r" is not sufficient, even for read-only mounts.
 > 
 > sure. but why did it mount /usr/home/mato/mnt/dos then ??

Maybe /dev/ad0s1 had different permissions?

Best regards
   Oliver

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