* Paul Murphy: > Jean-Baptiste Quenot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * Paul Murphy: > > > > > I _can_ read/write to it as root, but I would really like to use > > > it as a non-root user. Any thoughts as to why this is happening? > > > > [...] in /etc/fstab you may adjust the mode, see below -m700 for > > msdos filesystem: > > > > /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbkey msdos rw,-m700,noauto 0 0 > > fstab: /dev/da0s1 /flash_drive msdos rw,-m775,noauto 0 0 > > > mounted permisions: d--------- 1 root wheel 22016 Dec 31 1979 > flash_drive
FWIW you could check if your specific FreeBSD supports the -m switch by looking at the mount_msdosfs man page. > As a side note, the device has a little slider that is supposed to > lock the drive from being written to. Does FreeBSD honour this? Is > this a software or hardware lock? I'm pretty sure in the above case > it is in the unlock position. No, AFAIK the write lock is a hardware lock that has nothing to do with the mount process. Best regards, -- Jean-Baptiste Quenot http://caraldi.com/jbq/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
