Re: Mounting CDROM as user under 5.x

From: Harald Schmalzbauer (h_at_schmalzbauer.de)
Date: 12/31/03

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    To: Dany <dany_list@natzo.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 16:25:32 +0100

    On Wednesday 31 December 2003 16:07, Dany wrote:
    > Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
    *SNIP*
    >
    > This is pretty much what I've tried. My user is in the Wheel group.
    > Would this exact configuration work ? Should I set any other
    > permission in order to have the user from the wheel group to mount drives?
    >
    > Thanks for posting your configuration.
    >
    > PS: One thing I've noticed with this specific user, whenever he creates
    > something the file/directory will show owner:username group:username.
    > I've used the command "groups" as well as chpass I think and they gave
    > me only one group for this username... wheel. Why doesn't wheel appear
    > as the group owner for stuff that username is creating ?

    When you add a user with "adduser" by default FreeBSD creates a group similar
    named like the username. If you later say that this user should be in group
    wheel it's additional.

    >
    > >>>>>added the following to /dev/devfs.conf
    > >>>>>link acd0 cdrom
    > >>>>>perm acd0 0660

    This line just gives write access to group. You can either add the line:
    own acd0 root:wheel

    or you edit /etc/groups and add your user to the group operator.
    I'd prefere the latter.

    Here's my simple /etc/group example:
    # $FreeBSD: src/etc/group,v 1.28 2003/04/27 05:49:53 imp Exp $
    #
    wheel:*:0:root,harry
    daemon:*:1:
    kmem:*:2:
    sys:*:3:
    tty:*:4:
    operator:*:5:root,harry
    mail:*:6:
    bin:*:7:
    news:*:8:
    man:*:9:
    games:*:13:
    staff:*:20:
    sshd:*:22:
    smmsp:*:25:
    mailnull:*:26:
    guest:*:31:
    bind:*:53:
    uucp:*:66:
    dialer:*:68:
    network:*:69:
    www:*:80:
    nogroup:*:65533:
    nobody:*:65534:
    harry:*:####:
    uli:*:####:
    schowi:*:####:
    administrator:*:####:
    alle:*:####:root,harry,uli,schowi,administrator
    setiathome:*:####:

    -Harry

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