allowing users to mount cdrom again
Gautam Gopalakrishnan
thatha at gmail.com
Wed Jul 7 21:35:14 PDT 2004
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 00:41:59 +0200, Grant Speelman <grantg at xsinet.co.za> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I read in the previous post about allowing users to mount cdrom and
> wanted to try it for myself
> I did the follow :
>
> added vfs.usermount=1 to /etc/sysctl.conf
> changed the permissions on /dev/acd0 to include the user
> restarted freebsd (It's amazing what a restart does for me sometimes)
/dev is not a real filesystem. Once you reboot, changes are lost.
You would want to put permissions in /etc/devfs.conf so it's
more permanent.
Gautam
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