Trouble with mounting USB stick as user
martinko
martinkov at pobox.sk
Wed Feb 8 10:36:42 PST 2006
Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Michael Ekstrand <lists at elehack.net> wrote:
> > Rob <rbyrnes at mailshack.com> wrote:
> > > Can anyone shed some light on what is happening here?
> >
> > AFAIK, only root can mount things under FreeBSD, period. I could be
> > wrong on this...
>
> You are wrong. :-)
>
> > but I looked around a while ago for something to do
> > the job of the Linux 'user' option, and found nothing. I kinda remember
> > trying changing permissions too.
> >
> > If I'm wrong, I'd love to be corrected :-).
>
> You're welcome. :-)
>
> To enable user mounts, there are three conditions:
> 1. sysctl vfs.usermount=1
> 2. The user must have read+write permission on the device
> which is to be mounted. This is usually accomplished
> by creating a special group for this device.
> 3. The user must _own_ the mountpoint (r/w permission is
> not sufficient).
>
> Of course, an alternative is to use sudo (ports/security/sudo)
> or super (ports/security/super, which prefer).
>
> Best regards
> Oliver
>
hello,
i must be missing something (and i'm quite convinced that it worked when
i set it up initially) ...
[mb-aw1n-bsd][mato][~]
$ id
uid=1001(mato) gid=1001(mato) groups=1001(mato), 0(wheel), 5(operator)
[mb-aw1n-bsd][mato][~]
$ sysctl vfs.usermount
vfs.usermount: 1
[mb-aw1n-bsd][mato][~]
$ ll mnt/
total 10
drwxr-x--- 2 mato mato 512 Dec 11 20:44 cdrom
drwxr-x--- 2 mato mato 512 Dec 11 20:44 dos
drwxr-x--- 2 mato mato 512 Dec 11 20:44 fat
drwxr-x--- 2 mato mato 512 Dec 11 20:44 lin
drwxr-x--- 2 mato mato 512 Dec 11 20:44 win
[mb-aw1n-bsd][mato][~]
$ grep "/mato" /etc/fstab
/dev/acd0 /usr/home/mato/mnt/cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto
0 0
/dev/ad0s1 /usr/home/mato/mnt/dos msdosfs ro,noauto 0 0
/dev/ad0s5 /usr/home/mato/mnt/fat msdosfs
ro,noatime,noauto,-Lsk_SK.ISO8859-2 0 0
/dev/ad0s6 /usr/home/mato/mnt/win ntfs ro,noauto 0 0
/dev/ad0s7 /usr/home/mato/mnt/lin ext2fs ro,noauto 0 0
[mb-aw1n-bsd][mato][~]
$ ll /dev/ad0
crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 96 Feb 8 18:27 /dev/ad0
[mb-aw1n-bsd][mato][~]
$ mount /usr/home/mato/mnt/win/
mount_ntfs: /dev/ad0s6: Operation not permitted
[mb-aw1n-bsd][mato][~]
$ mount /usr/home/mato/mnt/lin/
mount_ext2fs: /dev/ad0s7: Operation not permitted
[mb-aw1n-bsd][mato][~]
$ mount /usr/home/mato/mnt/fat/
mount_msdosfs: cannot find or load "msdosfs_iconv" kernel module
mount_msdosfs: msdosfs_iconv: Operation not permitted
[mb-aw1n-bsd][mato][~]
$ mount /usr/home/mato/mnt/dos/
[mb-aw1n-bsd][mato][~]
$
any hint pls ??
cheers,
martin
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