Re: Mounting CDROM as user under 5.x

From: Dany (dany_list_at_natzo.com)
Date: 12/31/03

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To: Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de>

    Thanks Harry for taking the time to answer my questions. I think based
    on your comments it should work.

    Is there any security concern having a user belonging to the group
    operator ?

    Thanks again
    Dany

    Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:

    >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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