all users to mount cd's

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Fri May 20 13:46:39 PDT 2005


Ryan Winograd <rylwin at houston.rr.com> writes:

> Is there an easy way to allow any user to mount cd's?
> Well, yes. I have proper perms on cd devs and if a user creates
> a directory he owns he can mount from command line w/ sudo.
> 
> There are, however, some requiremnents i am trying to meet.
> 
> I would like the mounting process to be much easier. I am using
> KDE and would like to have the cd's mount automatically so that
> the users don't have to know how to use the command line. How
> can I accomplish this?
> 
> Thanks in advance for all advice,

See the "How do I let ordinary users mount floppies, CDROMs and other
removable media?", but an automounter may be what you want.  
Check out amd(8).


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