Re: Desktop FreeBSD - is it up to it?
--- vext01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have been using freebsd for my web/database/music server for a while and it has performed flawlessly. good good! However recently I installed freebsd on my desktop too. I can do the things I want to, it just seems that i need to be root to do a lot of things. If I didnt have root, I would be screwed. One point I find annoying is that I cant workout how a normal user can unmount a fs. I have created ~/cdrom and put an fstab entry in for it. The device is /dev/acd0 (777 for now). vfs.usermount=1. I can mount the share, but not unmount it. For now I have chmod +s /sbin/umount. This is bad and i wouldnt appreciate a normal user unmounting my hard disks. What is the proper way?? My version is 5.2-release. Also is there any guides online that tell you how freebsd can be configured as a desktop machine? Thanks vext01 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I hope these help. Simple FreeBSD installation yields functional desktop system: http://www.newsforge.com/os/04/01/05/211225.shtml?tid=8tid=82tid=94 Desktop FreeBSD Part 2: Initial Setup http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=282 Desktop FreeBSD Part 1: Installation http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=272 Instant workstation installs a typical set of ports for a workstation.: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/misc/instant-workstation/pkg-descr FreeBSD 5.2 Lacks Polishing In Some Areas but Rules in Others: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5821 A series of good articls. http://www.onlamp.com/bsd/ As for mounting and unmounting a cdrom and etc., check out: 9.22. How do I let ordinary users mount floppies, CDROMs and other removable media? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FLOPPYMOUNT = ESCape with VI. Cheese A La mode. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: desktop freebsd??
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Edd Barrett wrote: Hi all, I have been using freebsd for my web/database/music server for a while and it has performed flawlessly. good good! However recently I installed freebsd on my desktop too. I can do the things I want to, it just seems that i need to be root to do a lot of things. If I didnt have root, I would be screwed. Also is there any guides online that tell you how freebsd can be configured as a desktop machine? What exactly should your desktop machine be able to do? (I guess you are looking for graphical user enviroment like gnome or kde, but there are dozens of possiblities in the ports tree. And, if you like you also can do many things from the command line using troff, vi, mail, lynx, mc and friends) Regards, Uli. Thanks vext01 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+ |Peter Ulrich Kruppa| | Wuppertal | | Germany | +---+ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(const port *) Re: desktop freebsd??
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 11:30:38 - Edd Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: Hi all, I have been using freebsd for my web/database/music server for a while and it has performed flawlessly. good good! However recently I installed freebsd on my desktop too. I can do the things I want to, it just seems that i need to be root to do a lot of things. If I didnt have root, I would be screwed. One point I find annoying is that I cant workout how a normal user can unmount a fs. I have created ~/cdrom and put an fstab entry in for it. The device is /dev/acd0 (777 for now). vfs.usermount=1. I can mount the share, but not unmount it. For now I have chmod +s /sbin/umount. This is bad and i wouldnt appreciate a normal user unmounting my hard disks. What is the proper way?? My version is 5.2-release. Use sudo. /usr/ports/security/sudo. Or super. Location same. Also is there any guides online that tell you how freebsd can be configured as a desktop machine? /usr/ports/misc/instant-workstation :) Just kidding. It's going to be *your* PC - find out what you like and install what you like. I don't think anyone can recommend you anything - unless you know someone who knows you better than you yourself. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- DoubleF Take everything in stride. Trample anyone who gets in your way. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: desktop freebsd??
Perhaps you can use sudo for your normal user and setup the sudoers file for only the privleges you want your normal users to have. HTH, Darryl On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 11:30:38AM -, Edd Barrett wrote: Hi all, I have been using freebsd for my web/database/music server for a while and it has performed flawlessly. good good! However recently I installed freebsd on my desktop too. I can do the things I want to, it just seems that i need to be root to do a lot of things. If I didnt have root, I would be screwed. One point I find annoying is that I cant workout how a normal user can unmount a fs. I have created ~/cdrom and put an fstab entry in for it. The device is /dev/acd0 (777 for now). vfs.usermount=1. I can mount the share, but not unmount it. For now I have chmod +s /sbin/umount. This is bad and i wouldnt appreciate a normal user unmounting my hard disks. What is the proper way?? My version is 5.2-release. Also is there any guides online that tell you how freebsd can be configured as a desktop machine? Thanks vext01 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Darryl N. Grant ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: desktop freebsd??
Edd Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, I have been using freebsd for my web/database/music server for a while and it has performed flawlessly. good good! However recently I installed freebsd on my desktop too. I can do the things I want to, it just seems that i need to be root to do a lot of things. If I didnt have root, I would be screwed. One point I find annoying is that I cant workout how a normal user can unmount a fs. I have created ~/cdrom and put an fstab entry in for it. The device is /dev/acd0 (777 for now). vfs.usermount=1. I can mount the share, but not unmount it. For now I have chmod +s /sbin/umount. This is bad and i wouldnt appreciate a normal user unmounting my hard disks. What is the proper way?? My version is 5.2-release. Use the automounter. Not only will it save you the need to mount altogether, it's also likely to handle unmounting correctly for you (if not, just do amq -u as a regular user). Details here: http://www.daemonnews.org/200202/automounting.html -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: desktop freebsd??
Darryl Grant wrote: Perhaps you can use sudo for your normal user and setup the sudoers file for only the privleges you want your normal users to have. HTH, Darryl I've found this to be handy also in Gnome. Assigning sudo ppp -background myisp to an icon gives a better then M$ functionality for my dialup connection. Perhaps something similar could be done for mount/umount of the CD device Any security types out there feel a need to comment? :-) Kevin Kinsey On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 11:30:38AM -, Edd Barrett wrote: Hi all, I have been using freebsd for my web/database/music server for a while and it has performed flawlessly. good good! However recently I installed freebsd on my desktop too. I can do the things I want to, it just seems that i need to be root to do a lot of things. If I didnt have root, I would be screwed. One point I find annoying is that I cant workout how a normal user can unmount a fs. I have created ~/cdrom and put an fstab entry in for it. The device is /dev/acd0 (777 for now). vfs.usermount=1. I can mount the share, but not unmount it. For now I have chmod +s /sbin/umount. This is bad and i wouldnt appreciate a normal user unmounting my hard disks. What is the proper way?? My version is 5.2-release. Also is there any guides online that tell you how freebsd can be configured as a desktop machine? Thanks vext01 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: desktop freebsd??
Make yourself part of the wheel group. That should solve a lot of your problems. On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 05:30, Edd Barrett wrote: Hi all, I have been using freebsd for my web/database/music server for a while and it has performed flawlessly. good good! However recently I installed freebsd on my desktop too. I can do the things I want to, it just seems that i need to be root to do a lot of things. If I didnt have root, I would be screwed. One point I find annoying is that I cant workout how a normal user can unmount a fs. I have created ~/cdrom and put an fstab entry in for it. The device is /dev/acd0 (777 for now). vfs.usermount=1. I can mount the share, but not unmount it. For now I have chmod +s /sbin/umount. This is bad and i wouldnt appreciate a normal user unmounting my hard disks. What is the proper way?? My version is 5.2-release. Also is there any guides online that tell you how freebsd can be configured as a desktop machine? Thanks vext01 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
