mounting usb flash drive as user
Jon Wolfgang
jon-bsd at comcast.net
Sat Mar 10 04:42:56 UTC 2007
I am trying to mount a usb flash drive as a user under FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE.
I have followed the steps in the handbook, but it is not quite working.
My user account is jon and is a member of the operator group. I have
set the vfs.usermount variable to 1.
I am trying to mount the drive at /usbdrv. Here is a terminal output.
Script started on Fri Mar 9 23:26:53 2007
[jon at charon ~]$ sysctl vfs.usermount
vfs.usermount: 1
[jon at charon ~]$ ls -l /dev | grep da0
crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 163 Mar 9 22:38 da0
crw-rw---- 1 root operator 0, 164 Mar 9 22:38 da0s1
[jon at charon ~]$ ls -l / | grep usbdrv
drwxr-xr-x 2 jon jon 512 Mar 7 18:25 usbdrv/
[jon at charon ~]$ mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /usbdrv
mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Operation not permitted
[jon at charon ~]$ exit
Script done on Fri Mar 9 23:27:37 2007
However, if I su to root, and mount and unmount the drive, then the user
is able to mount it. This is kind of annoying though.
Did I miss a step somewhere? Any suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks,
Jon
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