Automatic mounting of removable meadia

[Heinrich Rebehn]

Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn at ant.uni-bremen.de> writes:
> 
> 
>>Is it possible to automatically mount media when they are inserted?
>> From the GNOME 2.4 documentation (Nautilus, 1.8.1:To mount Media):
>>
>>"
>>If your system is not configured to mount the device automatically,
>>you must mount the device manually. Right-click on the desktop, then
>>choose Disks->device-name. For example, to mount a floppy diskette,
>>choose Disks->Floppy. An object that represents the media is added to
>>the desktop.
>>"
>>
>>So, how can i configure FreeBSD to mount the device automatically?
> 
> 
> amd(8)

Yes. Although it does not provide automatic mounting upon insertion of 
the disk (like windows does), it would be a solution.
Unfortunately "man amd" does not say anything about the format of the 
map for a local device and i was unable to find anything in 
/usr/share/examples. Can anyone give me an example?
> 
> 
>>Unfortunately, the GNOME way to manually mount media via an entry in
>>/etc/fstab does not work under FreeBSD since the mountpoint must be
>>owned by the user, which is difficult to configure for a multiuser
>>system.
> 
> 
> No, it's not.  You can either have each user have a mountpoint in
> their own home directory, or you can use a common mountpoint which
> gets forced to the ownership of the user in the login procedure
> (typically via fbtab(5) or the XFree86 login, e.g. xdm's GiveConsole
> script).  You have to be careful with security, but it's not very
> different from letting ordinary users mount media in the first place.
Thanks for these hints.

Heinrich