Re: Mounting CDROM as user under 5.x

From: Andrew L. Gould (algould_at_datawok.com)
Date: 12/31/03

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    To: Dany <dany_list@natzo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 03:08:36 -0600

    On Tuesday 30 December 2003 11:39 pm, Dany wrote:
    > Hello,
    >
    > Because I didn't get any response on BSDforums, I've decided to try my
    > chance here.
    >
    > I'm trying to get my single user (belonging to the wheel group) mounting
    > a CD drive under 5.x using devfs (5.2RC2).
    > Could somebody post a very simple howto showing the files to modify ? Thanx
    >
    > So far I've tried the following things without success :
    >
    > mkdir /home/username/mount/cdrom
    > chown username /home/username/mount/cdrom
    > chmod 755 /home/username/mount/cdrom
    >
    > added the following to /etc/sysctl.conf
    > vfs.usermount=1
    >
    > added the following to /dev/devfs.conf
    > link acd0 cdrom
    > perm acd0 0660
    >
    > added /etc/devfs.rules with
    > [my_ruleset=10]
    > add path 'acd*' mode 660
    >
    > added the following to /etc/rc.conf
    > devfs_system_ruleset="my_ruleset"
    >
    > /dev/cdrom now shows up and root can use it to play a DVD for example
    > but user cannot use it either directly (/dev/cdrom) or when trying to
    > mount a CD (mount_cd9660 /dev/cdrom /home/username/mount/cdrom) .. the
    > result is “Operation not permitted”
    >
    > Thank you
    > Dany

    All I do for my user that's a member of wheel under FreeBSD 4.* is:

    chmod u+s /sbin/*mount

    Does this not work in FreeBSD 5.*?

    Andrew Gould

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