Removable media security in FreeBSD

[Peter Pentchev]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 08:58:06AM -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
> At 01:14 AM 6/10/2003, Jon DeShirley wrote:
> 
> >Example:
> >
> >%users  NOPASSWD:ALL=/sbin/mount /cdrom,/sbin/umount /cdrom
> >
> >What does this do?  It allows users in the group 'users' to run the explicit commands ONLY.
> 
> Ah, but the commands will be different for each user, because
> one needs to change permissions and ownership to a specific
> user (and, if you mount in the user's home directory, a
> specific path). What's more, the command must only be
> allowed to execute if the user is logged in via an X Windows
> desktop manager at the console, and the effects must be
> undone when s/he logs out. So, there are a lot of logistics
> that may make it infeasible to use this approach.

So, uhm, make a script to mount/chmod/etc, and another script
to unmount/unchmod/etc, and only allow sudo access to those?
 
G'luck,
Peter

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