fbtab and cdrom

[Mike Meyer]

In <000b01c2fedd$2a46dd70$7764a8c0 at ITDept>, Randy Grafton <rgrafton at indatacorp.com> typed:
> I've just installed 4.8 and am having some trouble with non-root users
> mounting cdroms. I have following entries in /etc/fbtab:
[...]
> My goal is that a non-root user can log in to the console and execute a
> script that mounts the cdrom, copies its contents to a folder on the system
> and then unmounts the cdrom.
> Any and all help is appreciated.

Normal users are - by default - not permitted to mount file
systems. Anyone who can mount a file system can get a root shell.

To enable this, you need to do:

# sysctl vfs.usermount=1

Add a "vfs.usermount=1" line to /etc/sysctl.conf to get this done at
automatically at boot time.

See the FAQ at <URL:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FLOPPYMOUNT
> for more information.

	<mike
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