vfs.usermount seem to have no effect...

[Freddie Cash]

On Fri, June 30, 2006 9:35 am, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
> Freddie Cash wrote:
>
>> On Fri, June 30, 2006 9:17 am, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
>>
>>> I tried to let my user to mount floppy however it doesnt
>>> work...see below:
>>>
>>>
>>> %ls -al /dev/fd0
>>> crw-rw-rw-  1 root  operator    0,  98 Jun 30 18:22 /dev/fd0 %ls
>>> -al
>>> /mnt
>>> total 4 drwxrwxrwx   2 root  wheel  512 May  1  2005 . drwxr-xr-x
>>> 20
>>> root  wheel  512 Jun 30 18:21 .. %mount /dev/fd0 /mnt mount:
>>> /dev/fd0: Operation not permitted
>>> %sysctl -a | grep vfs.usermount
>>> vfs.usermount: 1
>>> %uname -a
>>> FreeBSD perpetual.my.domain 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Fri
>>> Jun
>>> 23
>>> 20:07:07 EEST 2006
>>> yurtesen at perpetual.my.domain:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PERPETUAL  i386
>>> %
>>>
>>
>> Please see the FAQ entry for this:
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER
>> -FLOPPYMOUNT
>> You're missing the last bit.  :)
>>
>
> I already checked it...
> I have vfs.usermount=1 and 666 mode on /dev/fd0
> What am I missing? :) Can you tell the exact point?

Users can only mount onto directories they own.  :)  Hence, normal
users can't mount to /mnt.

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