all users to mount cd's

RW list-freebsd-2004 at morbius.sent.com
Fri May 20 16:18:48 PDT 2005


On Friday 20 May 2005 23:02, Ryan Winograd wrote:
> 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-FLOP
> >PYMOUNT
> >
> >
> > 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.

What I do is add a few lines like

chown $USER  /dvd

to /usr/local/share/config/kdm/Xstartup

so when a user logs in through kdm the ownership of the mountpoints are 
changed. 


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