Mounting CDROM as user under 5.x

[Dany]

The "operator" trick worked. Thanks again and happy new year. Since I've 
started the FreeBSD experience, I've collected about 20 pages of tips 
and tricks to get stuff running. I will probably publish something so 
others can enjoy it.

Dany


Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:

>On Wednesday 31 December 2003 16:37, Dany wrote:
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>>Thanks Harry for taking the time to answer my questions. I think based
>>on your comments it should work.
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>>Is there any security concern having a user belonging to the group
>>operator ?
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>I never really cared about. AnonFTP is owned by operator, but in general I 
>think wheel is worse than operator.
>Please correct me anybody, I don't really care on my workstation ;)
>Best is to have a look through the (default) filesystem and see if operator 
>has any write permissions where it was no good. I'm quiet sure wheel has much 
>too much read permissions for "normal" users. But that doesn't matter for 
>useres who can su ;)
>
>Happy new year,
>
>-Harry
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>>Thanks again
>>Dany
>>
>>Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
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>>>On Wednesday 31 December 2003 16:07, Dany wrote:
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>>>>Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
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>>>*SNIP*
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>>>>This is pretty much what I've tried. My user is in the Wheel group.
>>>>Would this exact configuration work ?    Should I set any other
>>>>permission in order to have the user from the wheel group to mount
>>>>drives?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks for posting your configuration.
>>>>
>>>>PS: One thing I've noticed with this specific user, whenever he creates
>>>>something the file/directory will show owner:username   group:username.
>>>>I've used the command "groups" as well as chpass I think and they gave
>>>>me only one group for this username... wheel.  Why doesn't wheel appear
>>>>as the group owner for stuff that username is creating ?
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>>>When you add a user with "adduser" by default FreeBSD creates a group
>>>similar named like the username. If you later say that this user should
>>>be in group wheel it's additional.
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>>>>>>>>>added the following to /dev/devfs.conf
>>>>>>>>>link acd0 cdrom
>>>>>>>>>perm acd0 0660
>>>>>>>>>                  
>>>>>>>>>
>>>This line just gives write access to group. You can either add the line:
>>>own    acd0 root:wheel
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>>>or you edit /etc/groups and add your user to the group operator.
>>>I'd prefere the latter.
>>>
>>>Here's my simple /etc/group example:
>>># $FreeBSD: src/etc/group,v 1.28 2003/04/27 05:49:53 imp Exp $
>>>#
>>>wheel:*:0:root,harry
>>>daemon:*:1:
>>>kmem:*:2:
>>>sys:*:3:
>>>tty:*:4:
>>>operator:*:5:root,harry
>>>mail:*:6:
>>>bin:*:7:
>>>news:*:8:
>>>man:*:9:
>>>games:*:13:
>>>staff:*:20:
>>>sshd:*:22:
>>>smmsp:*:25:
>>>mailnull:*:26:
>>>guest:*:31:
>>>bind:*:53:
>>>uucp:*:66:
>>>dialer:*:68:
>>>network:*:69:
>>>www:*:80:
>>>nogroup:*:65533:
>>>nobody:*:65534:
>>>harry:*:####:
>>>uli:*:####:
>>>schowi:*:####:
>>>administrator:*:####:
>>>alle:*:####:root,harry,uli,schowi,administrator
>>>setiathome:*:####:
>>>
>>>-Harry
>>>
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