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From: Jack <harpoMARX@javanet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: User mount possible?
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 08:56:07 -0500
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Wilhelm B. Kloke wrote:
>
> I ran into the following problem. I am serving diskless workstations
> on FreeBSD (2.2, if that matters). I want the users of these
> workstations to be able to mount their local disks, floppies and
> CD-ROM, and use local swap space, if available. The man pages
> mount(2) tell me, that the mount syscall needs superuser privilege.
> But I don't want those users to be superusers.
>
> The most clean solution I found out seems to write a suid wrapper
> for the operations needed. Or is it possible to do this be setting
> suitable group or user permissions on the device entry and the
> mount point?
>
> Does anybody have a suid script usable for my purpose already?
>
> Thanx, wbk
> --
> Dipl.-Math. Wilhelm Bernhard Kloke
> Institut fuer Arbeitsphysiologie an der Universitaet Dortmund
> Ardeystrasse 67, D-44139 Dortmund, Tel. 0231-1084-257 vormittags
You could install sudo. Works fine for me.
Alternatively, you could create a "floppy" group, for instance, and then
change group membership of those who should have access as well as the
device files in /dev/ themselves. (Don't forget to make these changed
devices writable by the floppy group)
Hope this is clear.
You might want to check out dejanews for more info.
good luck,
John Szumowski
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