lysergius2001 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 > FreeBSD 6.2.  Recently installed will not permit user mount of floppy disk,
 > cdrom, or usb.  Works fine as root.  Checked devfs.conf, devfs.rules, fstab,
 > /dev.  Nothing seems to make a difference.

For ordinary users to be able to mount file systems, three
conditions have to be met:

-1-  sysctl vfs.usermount=1

-2-  The user must have read+write access to the device
     to be mounted.  Usually you will solve that via
     group permissions, e.g. create a group for people
     who are allowed to mount a certain device, then put
     those people into that group (via /etc/group), and
     change the permission modes of the device so that
     the group can read+write it.

-3-  The user must own the mount point.  Note that read+
     write access is not sufficient here, and group rights
     don't matter -- the user must be the owner of the
     mount point.

Best regards
   Oliver

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