Mounting CDROM as user under 5.x

[Dany]

Thanks Harry for taking the time to answer my questions. I think based 
on your comments it should work.

Is there any security concern having a user belonging to the group 
operator ?

Thanks again
Dany

Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:

>On Wednesday 31 December 2003 16:07, Dany wrote:
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>>Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
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>*SNIP*
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>>This is pretty much what I've tried. My user is in the Wheel group.
>>Would this exact configuration work ?    Should I set any other
>>permission in order to have the user from the wheel group to mount drives?
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>>Thanks for posting your configuration.
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>>PS: One thing I've noticed with this specific user, whenever he creates
>>something the file/directory will show owner:username   group:username.
>>I've used the command "groups" as well as chpass I think and they gave
>>me only one group for this username... wheel.  Why doesn't wheel appear
>>as the group owner for stuff that username is creating ?
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>When you add a user with "adduser" by default FreeBSD creates a group similar 
>named like the username. If you later say that this user should be in group 
>wheel it's additional.
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>>>>>>>added the following to /dev/devfs.conf
>>>>>>>link acd0 cdrom
>>>>>>>perm acd0 0660
>>>>>>>              
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>This line just gives write access to group. You can either add the line:
>own    acd0 root:wheel
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>or you edit /etc/groups and add your user to the group operator.
>I'd prefere the latter.
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>Here's my simple /etc/group example:
># $FreeBSD: src/etc/group,v 1.28 2003/04/27 05:49:53 imp Exp $
>#
>wheel:*:0:root,harry
>daemon:*:1:
>kmem:*:2:
>sys:*:3:
>tty:*:4:
>operator:*:5:root,harry
>mail:*:6:
>bin:*:7:
>news:*:8:
>man:*:9:
>games:*:13:
>staff:*:20:
>sshd:*:22:
>smmsp:*:25:
>mailnull:*:26:
>guest:*:31:
>bind:*:53:
>uucp:*:66:
>dialer:*:68:
>network:*:69:
>www:*:80:
>nogroup:*:65533:
>nobody:*:65534:
>harry:*:####:
>uli:*:####:
>schowi:*:####:
>administrator:*:####:
>alle:*:####:root,harry,uli,schowi,administrator
>setiathome:*:####:
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>-Harry
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