Mounting CDROM as user under 5.x

[Dany]

I'v checked my kernel config and it had the "Options CD9660".

Beside the mounting problem as I said the user cannot use the linked 
device (/dev/dvd) to just watch a DVD (not need for mounting, just 
access to the device).

Can you post the system configuration files that you're using in order 
to allow your users to mount CD drives ?

Thank you
Dany


Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:

>On Wednesday 31 December 2003 10:08, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
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>>On Tuesday 30 December 2003 11:39 pm, Dany wrote:
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>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>Because I didn't get any response on BSDforums, I've decided to try my
>>>chance here.
>>>
>>>I'm trying to get my single user (belonging to the wheel group) mounting
>>>a CD drive under 5.x using devfs (5.2RC2).
>>>Could somebody post a very simple howto showing the files to modify ?
>>>Thanx
>>>
>>>So far I've tried the following things without success :
>>>
>>>mkdir /home/username/mount/cdrom
>>>chown username /home/username/mount/cdrom
>>>chmod 755 /home/username/mount/cdrom
>>>
>>>added the following to /etc/sysctl.conf
>>>vfs.usermount=1
>>>
>>>added the following to /dev/devfs.conf
>>>link acd0 cdrom
>>>perm acd0 0660
>>>
>>>added /etc/devfs.rules with
>>>[my_ruleset=10]
>>>add path 'acd*' mode 660
>>>
>>>added the following to /etc/rc.conf
>>>devfs_system_ruleset="my_ruleset"
>>>
>>>/dev/cdrom now shows up and root can use it to play a DVD for example
>>>but user cannot use it either directly (/dev/cdrom) or when trying to
>>>mount a CD (mount_cd9660 /dev/cdrom /home/username/mount/cdrom) .. the
>>>result is ?Operation not permitted?
>>>
>>>Thank you
>>>Dany
>>>      
>>>
>>All I do for my user that's a member of wheel under FreeBSD 4.* is:
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>>chmod u+s /sbin/*mount
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>>Does this not work in FreeBSD 5.*?
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>No, 5 has devfs.
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>Dany, make sure you have CD9660 compiled into the kernel, normal user aren't 
>allowed to load kernel modules. Also securemode should net be set.
>And the mountpoint should be owned by the user (which is in your case I think 
>since its under $home).
>I had the same problem and it was simply the missing CD9660 bits in the kernel
>
>-Harry
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>>Andrew Gould
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