Re: User permissions to mount CDROM

2006-09-02 Thread Viswas Nair
Finally got it to work. Thanks a lot everyone. On 8/30/06, Mark Moellering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you ever get this working? If not, I can give you my setup... Mark Moellering On Monday 28 August 2006 10:52 pm, Viswas Nair wrote: didn't help :( On 8/28/06, ajm [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: User permissions to mount CDROM

2006-08-28 Thread Viswas Nair
didn't help :( On 8/28/06, ajm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 08:11:16PM +0530, Viswas Nair wrote: I have been trying to figure out how to give users to mount CD rom and have been largely unsuccessful. Here are a few things I tried: 1) Added user to the 4th field (options)

Re: User permissions to mount CDROM

2006-08-28 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 8/27/06, Viswas Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been trying to figure out how to give users to mount CD rom and have been largely unsuccessful. Here are a few things I tried: 1) Added user to the 4th field (options) in /etc/fstab 2) Added vfs.usermount=1 to sysctl.conf 3) Created a

Re: User permissions to mount CDROM

2006-08-28 Thread Malcolm Fitzgerald
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 08:11:16PM +0530, Viswas Nair wrote: I have been trying to figure out how to give users to mount CD rom and have been largely unsuccessful. Here are a few things I tried: 1) Added user to the 4th field (options) in /etc/fstab 2) Added vfs.usermount=1 to sysctl.conf

Re: User permissions to mount CDROM

2006-08-28 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Viswas Nair wrote: I have been trying to figure out how to give users to mount CD rom and have been largely unsuccessful. Here are a few things I tried: 1) Added user to the 4th field (options) in /etc/fstab 2) Added vfs.usermount=1 to sysctl.conf 3) Created a group called optical and added

User permissions to mount CDROM

2006-08-27 Thread Viswas Nair
I have been trying to figure out how to give users to mount CD rom and have been largely unsuccessful. Here are a few things I tried: 1) Added user to the 4th field (options) in /etc/fstab 2) Added vfs.usermount=1 to sysctl.conf 3) Created a group called optical and added the root and alpha to

Re: User permissions to mount CDROM

2006-08-27 Thread ajm
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 08:11:16PM +0530, Viswas Nair wrote: I have been trying to figure out how to give users to mount CD rom and have been largely unsuccessful. Here are a few things I tried: 1) Added user to the 4th field (options) in /etc/fstab 2) Added vfs.usermount=1 to sysctl.conf 3)

user permissions

2006-07-27 Thread eoghan
I ensure my user can copy files from gui (gnome) to this folder. Im told I dont have permission to copy to this folder. Also apache tells me I dont have permission when I change the DocumentRoot to point to /home/user/public_html/ Just not sure how to go about giving a user permissions on files

Re: user permissions

2006-07-27 Thread jan gestre
about giving a user permissions on files/ folders I want them to be able to edit. Any pointers? Thanks Eoghan the default permission for apache assuming you are using apache22 is 755, changing it to 777 will have security repercusions, why not add that user to group that owns/runs apache or give

Re: user permissions

2006-07-27 Thread Benjamin Ruston
/public_html/ How do I ensure my user can copy files from gui (gnome) to this folder. Im told I dont have permission to copy to this folder. Also apache tells me I dont have permission when I change the DocumentRoot to point to /home/user/public_html/ Just not sure how to go about giving a user

Re: Problems with ordinary user permissions

2003-10-21 Thread Terry Lambert
carmoda wrote: ~sigh~ seems like an awful lot of stuffing around for something that a user/developer should be able to access by default *in my opinion*. so far i have about 30% of functionality of my previous W2K system after several times the time required for setup. [as a workstation]

Re: Problems with ordinary user permissions

2003-10-21 Thread JacobRhoden
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 10:37 am, Nicole wrote: An example of how spliting BSD into BSD server and BSD desktop could be a benefit. Hrmmm. /stand/sysinstall /stand/desktopinstall Jacob RhodenPhone: +61 3 8344 4478 ITS DivisionEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Melbourne

Re: Problems with ordinary user permissions

2003-10-20 Thread Andreas Kohn
Hi, On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 16:06, carmoda wrote: ~sigh~ seems like an awful lot of stuffing around for something that a user/developer should be able to access by default *in my opinion*. so far i have about 30% of functionality of my previous W2K system after several times the time

Problems with ordinary user permissions

2003-10-19 Thread Anthony Carmody
Hi, I have been having a trouble getting various things to work on my new 5.1 workstation with gnome 2.x. tonight i was attemtping to get 'gtoaster' [cd buring s/w] working as i couldnt see any drives, and when i tried adding them i encountered a few errors muttering about permissions. so i

Re: Problems with ordinary user permissions

2003-10-19 Thread peter lageotakes
Please check out the FreeBSD FAQ: 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 Pete --- Anthony Carmody [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have been having a trouble getting

Re: Problems with ordinary user permissions

2003-10-19 Thread carmoda
~sigh~ seems like an awful lot of stuffing around for something that a user/developer should be able to access by default *in my opinion*. so far i have about 30% of functionality of my previous W2K system after several times the time required for setup. [as a workstation] FreeBSD may be