On 6/9/07, Timothy Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
I'm having great difficulty allowing my users to mount the cdrom. I've
looked in the faq and both fstab and mount manpages, but still can't
find it! I think the GNU tools allow:
Hello Tim:
I got user mount of the CDROM to work as follows:
1) Edit /etc/sysctl.conf and insert
kern.usermount=1
2) As root, do # mkdir /cdrom
# cd /cdrom
# mkdir tim (assuming the user account is named tim)
3) Do: # chown tim /cdrom/tim
this is based on the comment from:
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http://monkey.org/openbsd/archive/misc/0309/msg01664.html
/*
* If the user is not root, ensure that they own the directory
* onto which we are attempting to mount.
*/
4) Edit /etc/fstab and insert the following line:
/dev/cd0a /cdrom/tim cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0
5) Add the user tim to the operator group, in /etc/group like so:
operator:*:5:root,tim
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To make a user mountable thumb drive:
1) Make sure /etc/sysctl.conf has:
kern.usermount=1
2) As root, do # mkdir /thumb
# cd /cdrom
# mkdir tim (assuming the user account is named bsd)
3) Do: # chown tim /thumb/tim
Again see:
http://monkey.org/openbsd/archive/misc/0309/msg01664.html
for the details.
4) Edit /etc/fstab and insert the following line:
/dev/sd0i /thumb/tim msdos rw,noauto 0 0
5) Again, make sure the user tim is in the operator group, in
/etc/group like so:
operator:*:5:root,tim
6) Last step, do
# chmod g+w /dev/sd0i
(sd0i is the mount point for the USB thumb drive)
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Kind regards,
Jonathan
