Mount /cdrom as non-root user - does this actually work for anyone?

[Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko]

On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 00:53:52 +0000
Stacey Roberts <stacey at vickiandstacey.com> probably wrote:

> Hello,

>     I've just realised that I am unable to mount a cdrom disk as a
> non-root user for *any* of my machines.
> 
> All hosts concerned are running FreeBSD-4.9Stable, and running through:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.IS...SER-FLOPPYMOUNT does *not* work
> for me at all..,

[snip]

Why not use sudo (from the ports) and allow yourself (and anyone who
needs) to mount the cdrom?

Here's what I have in my sudoers file:

df      ALL=NOPASSWD:   /sbin/umount /cdrom,\                                   
                        /sbin/mount_cd9660 -o nosuid\,nodev /dev/acd0c /cdrom   

This means `df' can mount and unmount the cdrom. And I have a couple of
scripts, `cdrom+' and `cdrom-', which contain the allowed commands
above. As you see, I don't need a password or anything to mount the
cdrom (NOPASSWD).

HTH.

> Regards,
> 
> Stacey
> -- 
> Stacey Roberts
> B. Sc (HONS) Computer Science
> 
> Web: www.vickiandstacey.com
> 


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DoubleF
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