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]> 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) in /etc/fstab > > > 2) Added vfs.usermount=1 to sysctl.conf > > > 3) Created a group called optical and added the root and alpha to it > > > 4) Added following lines to devfs,conf : > > > own /dev/acd0 root:optical > > > perm /dev/acd0 0770 > > > own /dev/acd1 root:optical > > > perm /dev/acd1 0770 > > > 5) Rebooted machine and tried to mount /dev/acd0 into /cdrom and it > > > > failed > > > > > with the message: > > > got the error message: /dev/acd0 > > > > Try the following: create a subdirectory in the users home directory. > > example: /home/steven/cdrom > > > > mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0 /home/steven/cdrom > > > > also, you can change the permission to 550 > > (read/execute by owner and group) no need for write permission. > > make sure that your users are part of the optical group. > > One more thing...users will not be able to mount anything to /cdrom > > since it will belong to root/wheel. Hope this helped you. > > > > -- > > FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE i386 GENERIC > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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