Re: /cdrom for normal users?
On Thursday 18 July 2002 02:54 pm, Steve Mazerski wrote: | On Thursday 18 July 2002 20:09, Daniel Bye wrote: | On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 07:15:10AM -0700, Balaji, Pavan wrote: | By default, cdrom is /dev/acd0c is only mountable by root in FreeBSD. | You can make it mountable by normal users by changing the /etc/fstab | entry to users,ro,noauto | | /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 users,ro,noauto 0 | 0 | | Hmm, just edited my /etc/fstab to look like this, and I get a different | message: | | cd9660: -o users: option not supported Right. That's because you can't do that in FreeBSD. I wish you could, too. At least, it's never worked for me. | However, google brought me this: | | http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FLOP | PY MOUNT That's ok if you can live with users being able to mount only into their own directories, but I found that rather awkward. I use op (from the ports/packages) to permit ordinary users to mount the cdrom. This is a sort of super sudo command that you use to give limited or full access with or without passwords to various commands. It means that ordinary users would mount with op mount /cdrom rather than just mount /cdrom. Myself, I alias mount to op mount in my ordinary user profile. -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: /cdrom for normal users?
By default, cdrom is /dev/acd0c is only mountable by root in FreeBSD. You can make it mountable by normal users by changing the /etc/fstab entry to users,ro,noauto /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 users,ro,noauto 0 0 Pavan Balaji, Intel Corporation Only the Paranoid Survive -- Andy Grove -Original Message- From: Steve Mazerski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 5:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: /cdrom for normal users? Is it the done thing in FreeBSD for normal users to mount CD-ROMs in a local directory rather than /cdrom? As a normal user all I get is this: localuser mount /cdrom cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Operation not permitted despite changing the permissions on both the CD-ROM device and /cdrom to 660 and ensuring the local user is in the relevant groups I can mount CD-ROMs in a directory owned by the normal user. I ask because in Linux, /cdrom is generally useable as a mount point by all users. It's not a problem, just wondering. For reference: the relevant line in /etc/fstab: /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 vfs.usermount is set to 1, and yes, I have read this page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.htm l#USER-FLOPPYMOUNT S.Mazerski To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: /cdrom for normal users?
On Thursday 18 July 2002 20:09, Daniel Bye wrote: On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 07:15:10AM -0700, Balaji, Pavan wrote: By default, cdrom is /dev/acd0c is only mountable by root in FreeBSD. You can make it mountable by normal users by changing the /etc/fstab entry to users,ro,noauto /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 users,ro,noauto 0 0 Hmm, just edited my /etc/fstab to look like this, and I get a different message: cd9660: -o users: option not supported That's what I got when I borrowed the relevent line from my Linux /etc/fstab. Being a hopeless beginner I presumed this was a naive error on my part and discretely forgot to mention it. However, google brought me this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FLOPPY MOUNT Thanks, but been there, done that (see my original mail). So, what's up? At the moment things look like this? localuser@localhost uname -a FreeBSD localhost.local 4.6-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE #0: Sun Jul 14 17:14:44 CEST 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/KERNEL_1 i386 (I recompiled the kernel for ext2fs support) root# sysctl -a | fgrep vfs\.usermount vfs.usermount: 1 localuser@localhost ls -ld /cdrom drwxrwxr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jul 14 18:10 /cdrom localuser@localhost ls -l /dev/acd0c crw-rw 4 root operator 117, 0 Jul 14 18:15 /dev/acd0c localuser@localhost groups localuser wheel operator localuser@localhost cat /etc/fstab | fgrep cdrom /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto,users 0 0 localuser@localhost mount /cdrom cd9660: -o users: option not supported localuser@localhost mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c ~/cdrom localuser@localhost ls ~/cdrom EULAREADME RedHat autorun GPL RPM-GPG-KEY TRANS.TBL (well, it was the first one I had to hand ;-) Any ideas? Just wondering... (I may of course be overlooking something). S.Mazerski To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: /cdrom for normal users?
there is no such parameter passable to mount called users. it needs to be removed. if you can mount it from the command line, you should make the fstab line agree with it, and i see no reason why it wouldn't then work. keep in mind that in your fstab, you are attempting to mount the CDROM onto /cdrom. on the command-line, you mounted it onto ~/cdrom. does localuser have permissions on /cdrom? what are those permissions right now? so, in fstab: /dev/acd0c /home/localuser/cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 should work fine. change permissions on /cdrom and i'd assume: /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 should work fine. -Adam (07.18.2002 @ 1154 PST): Steve Mazerski said, in 2.1K: On Thursday 18 July 2002 20:09, Daniel Bye wrote: On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 07:15:10AM -0700, Balaji, Pavan wrote: By default, cdrom is /dev/acd0c is only mountable by root in FreeBSD. You can make it mountable by normal users by changing the /etc/fstab entry to users,ro,noauto /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 users,ro,noauto 0 0 Hmm, just edited my /etc/fstab to look like this, and I get a different message: cd9660: -o users: option not supported That's what I got when I borrowed the relevent line from my Linux /etc/fstab. Being a hopeless beginner I presumed this was a naive error on my part and discretely forgot to mention it. However, google brought me this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FLOPPY MOUNT Thanks, but been there, done that (see my original mail). So, what's up? At the moment things look like this? localuser@localhost uname -a FreeBSD localhost.local 4.6-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE #0: Sun Jul 14 17:14:44 CEST 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/KERNEL_1 i386 (I recompiled the kernel for ext2fs support) root# sysctl -a | fgrep vfs\.usermount vfs.usermount: 1 localuser@localhost ls -ld /cdrom drwxrwxr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jul 14 18:10 /cdrom localuser@localhost ls -l /dev/acd0c crw-rw 4 root operator 117, 0 Jul 14 18:15 /dev/acd0c localuser@localhost groups localuser wheel operator localuser@localhost cat /etc/fstab | fgrep cdrom /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto,users 0 0 localuser@localhost mount /cdrom cd9660: -o users: option not supported localuser@localhost mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c ~/cdrom localuser@localhost ls ~/cdrom EULAREADME RedHat autorun GPL RPM-GPG-KEY TRANS.TBL (well, it was the first one I had to hand ;-) Any ideas? Just wondering... (I may of course be overlooking something). S.Mazerski To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message end of Re: /cdrom for normal users? from Steve Mazerski -- Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw. -Lilo, Lilo Stitch Adam Weinberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://vectors.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: /cdrom for normal users?
On Thursday 18 July 2002 23:20, Adam Weinberger wrote: there is no such parameter passable to mount called users. it needs to be removed. if you can mount it from the command line, you should make the fstab line agree with it, and i see no reason why it wouldn't then work. keep in mind that in your fstab, you are attempting to mount the CDROM onto /cdrom. on the command-line, you mounted it onto ~/cdrom. does localuser have permissions on /cdrom? what are those permissions right now? As posted in the prior mail: localuser@localhost ls -ld /cdrom drwxrwxr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jul 14 18:10 /cdrom localuser@localhost ls -l /dev/acd0c crw-rw 4 root operator 117, 0 Jul 14 18:15 /dev/acd0c localuser@localhost groups localuser wheel operator setting /etc/fstab with /dev/acd0c/cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 produces: localuser@localhost mount /cdrom cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Operation not permitted Am I missing something, or is something missing me? ;-) S.Mazerski (07.18.2002 @ 1154 PST): Steve Mazerski said, in 2.1K: On Thursday 18 July 2002 20:09, Daniel Bye wrote: On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 07:15:10AM -0700, Balaji, Pavan wrote: By default, cdrom is /dev/acd0c is only mountable by root in FreeBSD. You can make it mountable by normal users by changing the /etc/fstab entry to users,ro,noauto /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 users,ro,noauto 0 0 Hmm, just edited my /etc/fstab to look like this, and I get a different message: cd9660: -o users: option not supported That's what I got when I borrowed the relevent line from my Linux /etc/fstab. Being a hopeless beginner I presumed this was a naive error on my part and discretely forgot to mention it. However, google brought me this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FL OPPY MOUNT Thanks, but been there, done that (see my original mail). So, what's up? At the moment things look like this? localuser@localhost uname -a FreeBSD localhost.local 4.6-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE #0: Sun Jul 14 17:14:44 CEST 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/KERNEL_1 i386 (I recompiled the kernel for ext2fs support) root# sysctl -a | fgrep vfs\.usermount vfs.usermount: 1 localuser@localhost ls -ld /cdrom drwxrwxr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jul 14 18:10 /cdrom localuser@localhost ls -l /dev/acd0c crw-rw 4 root operator 117, 0 Jul 14 18:15 /dev/acd0c localuser@localhost groups localuser wheel operator localuser@localhost cat /etc/fstab | fgrep cdrom /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto,users 0 0 localuser@localhost mount /cdrom cd9660: -o users: option not supported localuser@localhost mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c ~/cdrom localuser@localhost ls ~/cdrom EULAREADME RedHat autorun GPL RPM-GPG-KEY TRANS.TBL (well, it was the first one I had to hand ;-) Any ideas? Just wondering... (I may of course be overlooking something). S.Mazerski To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message end of Re: /cdrom for normal users? from Steve Mazerski To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: /cdrom for normal users?
user localhost doesn't have access to read from /dev/acd0c. -Adam (07.18.2002 @ 1245 PST): Steve Mazerski said, in 3.5K: On Thursday 18 July 2002 23:20, Adam Weinberger wrote: there is no such parameter passable to mount called users. it needs to be removed. if you can mount it from the command line, you should make the fstab line agree with it, and i see no reason why it wouldn't then work. keep in mind that in your fstab, you are attempting to mount the CDROM onto /cdrom. on the command-line, you mounted it onto ~/cdrom. does localuser have permissions on /cdrom? what are those permissions right now? As posted in the prior mail: localuser@localhost ls -ld /cdrom drwxrwxr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jul 14 18:10 /cdrom localuser@localhost ls -l /dev/acd0c crw-rw 4 root operator 117, 0 Jul 14 18:15 /dev/acd0c localuser@localhost groups localuser wheel operator setting /etc/fstab with /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 produces: localuser@localhost mount /cdrom cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Operation not permitted Am I missing something, or is something missing me? ;-) S.Mazerski (07.18.2002 @ 1154 PST): Steve Mazerski said, in 2.1K: On Thursday 18 July 2002 20:09, Daniel Bye wrote: On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 07:15:10AM -0700, Balaji, Pavan wrote: By default, cdrom is /dev/acd0c is only mountable by root in FreeBSD. You can make it mountable by normal users by changing the /etc/fstab entry to users,ro,noauto /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 users,ro,noauto 0 0 Hmm, just edited my /etc/fstab to look like this, and I get a different message: cd9660: -o users: option not supported That's what I got when I borrowed the relevent line from my Linux /etc/fstab. Being a hopeless beginner I presumed this was a naive error on my part and discretely forgot to mention it. However, google brought me this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FL OPPY MOUNT Thanks, but been there, done that (see my original mail). So, what's up? At the moment things look like this? localuser@localhost uname -a FreeBSD localhost.local 4.6-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE #0: Sun Jul 14 17:14:44 CEST 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/KERNEL_1 i386 (I recompiled the kernel for ext2fs support) root# sysctl -a | fgrep vfs\.usermount vfs.usermount: 1 localuser@localhost ls -ld /cdrom drwxrwxr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jul 14 18:10 /cdrom localuser@localhost ls -l /dev/acd0c crw-rw 4 root operator 117, 0 Jul 14 18:15 /dev/acd0c localuser@localhost groups localuser wheel operator localuser@localhost cat /etc/fstab | fgrep cdrom /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto,users 0 0 localuser@localhost mount /cdrom cd9660: -o users: option not supported localuser@localhost mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c ~/cdrom localuser@localhost ls ~/cdrom EULAREADME RedHat autorun GPL RPM-GPG-KEY TRANS.TBL (well, it was the first one I had to hand ;-) Any ideas? Just wondering... (I may of course be overlooking something). S.Mazerski To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message end of Re: /cdrom for normal users? from Steve Mazerski To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message end of Re: /cdrom for normal users? from Steve Mazerski -- Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw. -Lilo, Lilo Stitch Adam Weinberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://vectors.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: /cdrom for normal users?
On Friday 19 July 2002 00:15, Adam Weinberger wrote: user localhost doesn't have access to read from /dev/acd0c. -Adam user localhost is in group operator, and /dev/acd0c is readable by group operator: localuser@localhost ls -l /dev/acd0c crw-rw 4 root operator 117, 0 Jul 14 18:15 /dev/acd0c If I am missing something fundemental here, please say. Setting /dev/acd0c to a+rw didn't make any difference. vfs.usermount is set to 1, the CD-ROM works and I can mount it in a directory _owned_ by localuser. I can mount it on /cdrom if I chown it to localuser. S.Mazerski To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
