automounting cd-rom & cd-rw devices
Jay Moore
jaymo at cromagnon.cullmail.com
Sat Mar 27 18:10:41 PST 2004
I have a FreeBSD 4.9 system; I am also running KDE...
I'm building this system for my son (college student) who has been (until now)
a Windoze user :( I'm trying to set this sytem up so that he'll be able to
use it with a minimum of calls to tech support (me). One of the issues I am
struggling with is how to make the cd-rw & cd-rom devices usable without
requiring him to start a root shell and mount/umount these devices.
There appear to be some KDE applications that support this, but they must be
started with root permissions. I figured automounting cd's must be a "FAQ",
so I researched the FreeBSD website, and Greg Lehey's book to find "the
answer". Unfortuantely, I found very little info. The only good source of
"how-to" on this subject was a rather dated article that described
configuring amd to do this:
http://www.daemonnews.org/200202/automounting.html
The dearth of sources of info on this lead me to wonder if automounting the cd
drives is something that should be done at all. So - my questions are:
1) Should I automount cd's?
2) What is the "best way" to allow ordinary users to mount cd's?
Thanks,
Jay Moore
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