User permissions to mount CDROM

[Malcolm Fitzgerald]

>> On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 08:11:16PM +0530, Viswas Nair wrote:
>> > I have been trying to figure out how to give users to mount CD rom 
>> and
>> have
>> > been largely unsuccessful. Here are a few things I tried:
>> > 1) Added user to the 4th field (options) in /etc/fstab
>> > 2) Added vfs.usermount=1 to  sysctl.conf
>> > 3) Created a group called optical and added the root and alpha to it
>> > 4) Added following lines to devfs,conf :
>> > own /dev/acd0 root:optical
>> > perm /dev/acd0 0770
>> > own /dev/acd1 root:optical
>> > perm /dev/acd1 0770
>> > 5) Rebooted machine and tried to mount /dev/acd0 into /cdrom and it
>> failed
>> > with the message:
>> > got the error message: /dev/acd0

This tutorial helped me: User mounting of removable devices on FreeBSD

http://caia.swin.edu.au/reports/041130A/

Malcolm Fitzgerald