auto mount xfce4 and kde

[Koen de Wijs]

Mel schreef:
> On Friday 31 August 2007 09:41:23 Koen de Wijs wrote:
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>> This week I installed FreeBSD on a computer of mine. Everything works
>> fine but one thing I can't get working.
>> Every person should be albe to work with the machine. The only thing
>> that isn't working is auto-mounting of cd-roms and usb-sticks. If KDE is
>> started and I put a usb-stick in the computer there should appear a icon
>> on the desktop with the usb drive on it and that should also work for
>> cd-roms. On XFCE4 there should also appear an icon;
>>     
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> Don't know about XFCE4, but read on.
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>> I also added the regular user to the group operators.
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> You don't wanna do that, unless it's ok with you that a user can get read 
> access to every file on every disk. Operator is meant for backup users.
>
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>> What do I need to do to get it working?
>>     
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> portinstall desktop-bsd-tools and read the instructions about devfs, with a 
> major side-note:
> ntfs/fat partitions can only be mounted by root, because mount changes the 
> owner of the disk to the underlying directory, so it's likely that your users 
> cannot mount usb-sticks.
> To automount usb storage devices as root, have a look at usbd(8) and 
> usbd.conf(5). You'll have to provide an unmounter for your users though and 
> instruct them to unmount before removing or things go to hell.
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I've got everyting working right now except for the usb stick. I tried 
am-utils but I didn't lik that. Is I tried a lot of things and read a 
lot and everything almost works except for the usb-sticks. Before I will 
be busy with it for a couple of hours is this the way it should work?
http://caia.swin.edu.au/reports/041130A/
This website describes how to add usb-devices but is it normal to add an 
extra script with devd or is just some wierd workaround?

Koen