all users to mount cd's
Ryan Winograd
rylwin at houston.rr.com
Fri May 20 15:02:21 PDT 2005
Ryan Winograd wrote:
> On May 20, 2005 04:10 pm, Ryan Winograd wrote:
>
>>> 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,
>>> Ryan w
>>>
>>
>>
>
> Everything in that FAQ still works :
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FLOPPYMOUNT
>
>
> Basically, type sysctl vfs.usermount=1 or add the line
> vfs.usermount=1 to /etc/sysctl.conf so that it changes itself at
> boot. Make sure your cdrom has the correct permission in
> /etc/devfs.conf (example : perm acd0 777).
> Make a user-readable folder in the users home directory
> (/home/myself/cdrom)
> Make a fstab entry in /etc/fstab for that user (/dev/acd0
> /home/myself/cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0)
> Make an device icon on the KDE desktop with that user's fstab entry
> (found in the Device tab).
>
> Anyone sees a mistake in this, please fix,
>
> Nicolas.
>
>
>
I was hoping to avoid adding to the fstab for every user on my network.
Otherwise that would work. I got another suggestion recommending using
amd (automounter), which i will look into a little more. Thx for advice
though.
Side note: Is it a mistake to be using FreeBSD as a desktop OS? Its main
purpose is as a server, FreeBSD even admits its goal is not to be a
desktop OS. So should i be looking for a Linux solution here? It might
be worth looking into.
Anyways, i'll report back when i explore amd a little bit.
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