On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Robert Watson wrote: > So one thing we could start doing is have sysinstall's adduser stuff offer > to place new users in the operator group, and set up the default > permissions on removable devices such that the operator group has > read/write access to them (or even just read-access). This would be > logically equivilent to placing users in an admin group at instlal on > Windows or Mac OS X. Operator access connotes the ability to shut down > the system in FreeBSD, as well as the ability to dump file systems, etc. > Another possibility would be to evolve our notion of console user based on > fbtab some for workstation configurations.
I've always done most of this manually. But I only normally grant write access to group operator for floppies, since my other removable devices are too large to risk clobbering them easily. (I sometimes temporarily make even non-removable disk partitions writable for testing.) Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
