Anyway, I consider this to be a "hack" too :-)
> Hello all, > > I've been watching this thread with some interest. > > I have actually found quite a straightforward solution to this problem that > works for me under FreeBSD, and requires no extra entries in fstab, scripts > changing permissions on login, or any other fairly ugly workaround. > > I assume that basically what we are looking for is to make > mounting/unmounting of devices as simple as possible for non-technical > users so they do not have to run mount manually at the command line. > > As mentioned before, you can easily globally restrict which users you wish > to allow mounting of a particular device by simply using group permissions > on the device. > > Then, assuming you've set vfs.usermount = 1: > > 1. ) First create some suitable directories under the user's /home folder > for mounting the devices. For example, I have: > > [= Yggdrasil | aren | /usr/home/aren =]% ls -l media > total 8 > drwxr-xr-x 2 aren aren 512 Apr 6 21:37 cdrw/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 aren aren 512 Apr 6 13:19 dvdrom/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 aren aren 512 Apr 6 15:03 floppy/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 aren aren 512 Apr 6 14:04 usbflash/ > > 2.) Next, add the devices icons to your KDE (or whichever) desktop. > > 3.) Now KDE by default will use the mount point specified under > /etc/fstab. Obviously this is no good, since the current user will not own > the mount point specified. However, if you simply open up the actual > desktop device file, it is a very straightforward text file. You can then > simply edit the "MountPoint" entry to point to the new mount location under > your home folder. > > For example, for my DVD-ROM drive desktop link: > > [= Yggdrasil | aren | /usr/home/aren/Desktop =]% cat DVD-ROM > [Desktop Action Eject] > Exec=kdeeject %v > Name=Eject > > [Desktop Entry] > Actions=Eject; > Dev=/dev/cd1 > Encoding=UTF-8 > Icon=dvd_mount > MountPoint=/home/aren/media/dvdrom > FSType=cd9660 > ReadOnly=true > Type=FSDevice > UnmountIcon=dvd_unmount > X-KDE-Priority=TopLevel > > > The "FSType" entry is not usually there by default either, but it helps to > make sure that the correct option is called to mount. > > > > Mounting a device is as simple as just clicking on the desktop icon now, > which is exactly what we wanted. It will mount the device under the mount > location in my /home, which I own, and everything works great. > > This method requires no alteration/extra entries in /etc/fstab, no chown on > a global mount location (since the user always owns their own local mount > point), no sudo and no setuid. Minimal security compromise. > > For a large network, it should be fairly trivial to create a script that > will add the users to the correct group(s) for mouting the given device(s), > create the necessary mount directories under the user's /home directory, > and populate their KDE (or whichever) desktop with the correct (modified) > desktop entries. Job done. > > Regards, > > Aren. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
