vfs.usermount seem to have no effect...

[John Merryweather Cooper]

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
> %
>
>
> The same problem exists for dos partitions etc. am I missing something 
> here?
>
> Thanks,
> Evren
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Well, the mount point has to be "owned" and have suitable permissions 
for mounting.

For example, to mount my DVD drive while NOT logged on as root, I have a 
mounting point:

$HOME/cdrom

in my home directory and an appropriate entry in my /etc/fstabs.

jmc