Ryan Winograd wrote:
I was hoping to avoid adding to the fstab for every user on my network. Otherwise that would work. I got another suggestion recommending using amd (automounter), which i will look into a little more. Thx for advice though.On May 20, 2005 04:10 pm, Ryan Winograd wrote:
Is there an easy way to allow any user to mount cd's? Well, yes. I have proper perms on cd devs and if a user creates a directory he owns he can mount from command line w/ sudo.
There are, however, some requiremnents i am trying to meet.
I would like the mounting process to be much easier. I am using KDE and would like to have the cd's mount automatically so that the users don't have to know how to use the command line. How can I accomplish this?
Thanks in advance for all advice, Ryan w
Everything in that FAQ still works : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FLOPPYMOUNT
Basically, type sysctl vfs.usermount=1 or add the line vfs.usermount=1 to /etc/sysctl.conf so that it changes itself at boot. Make sure your cdrom has the correct permission in /etc/devfs.conf (example : perm acd0 777).
Make a user-readable folder in the users home directory (/home/myself/cdrom)
Make a fstab entry in /etc/fstab for that user (/dev/acd0 /home/myself/cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0)
Make an device icon on the KDE desktop with that user's fstab entry (found in the Device tab).
Anyone sees a mistake in this, please fix,
Nicolas.
Side note: Is it a mistake to be using FreeBSD as a desktop OS? Its main purpose is as a server, FreeBSD even admits its goal is not to be a desktop OS. So should i be looking for a Linux solution here? It might be worth looking into.
Anyways, i'll report back when i explore amd a little bit. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
