FreeBSD 5.2 How do I let ordinary users mount floppies, CDROMs and other removable media?

[Stan Sorochan]

Hi everyone!

I am running FreeBSD 5.2 on a PIV machine

What I need to do is let ordinary users mount removable media (CD's,
floppies, flash cards, digicams, etc)

So I went ahead and done the following steps:

enabled vfs.usermount (i've checked it - after reboot I do this:
# sysctl -a | grep vfs.usermount
and get
vfs.usermount=1

then I've added the following groups to my group file and added myself to
them:
usb, floppy, cdrom. their GID's are all above 1001

then I've added the following to my /etc/devfs.conf:

own     acd0    root:cdrom
perm    acd0    0660

own     fd0     root:floppy
perm    fd0     0660

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***After all of the above I can mount a CD without doing a su***
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Then I've created a /etc/devfs.rules and put the following lines into it:

[fetbox_usb=10]
add path 'da*s*' mode 0660 group usb

and I've added the follwing line to my /etc/rc.conf:

devfs_system_ruleset="fetbox_usb"

so that my rule was loaded at boot time

but I still cannot mount stuff on the USB port.

If I check the permission rights for my da* device, everything seems OK, the
device gets assigned the correct gid and rights.

What am I missing?  How can I make my USB devices accessible without SU???


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Thanks in advance for your support!

Stan Sorochan

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