trouble mounting Olympus WS-310M voice recorder

[ajm]

On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 11:16:54PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
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> ajm wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:42:15PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> > ajm wrote:
> >>>> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 12:27:10AM +0100, Tore Lund wrote:
> >>>>> Andrew Gould wrote:
> >>>>>> [snip]
> >>>> this is from a previous message in the thread:
> >>>>> attempt:  mount -tmsdos -orw /dev/da0s1 /mnt/ws310
> >>>> try as root or su to root
> >>>>
> >>>> # mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/ws310
> > Interestingly enough I tried out these steps as root to see if I could
> > resimulate this with my camera and I ended up with the same results.
> > Only by trying to mount the camera as root could I succeed.
> > 
> > Does anyone have a FAT16/FAT32 drive properly mounting under FreeBSD as
> > a non-root user? If so, did you modify /dev, /etc/devfs.conf, or are you
> > using amd(8)?
> > 
> > -Garrett
> 
> > Take a look at   sudoers(5)   and   visudo(8)
> 
> > I use sudo to mount my mass storage compliant devices with the 
> > following command as regular user:
> 
> > for my mp3 player
> > [ajm at bsd]$ sudo mount_msdosfs /dev/da?s1 /usr/home/ajm/mnt/mp3player
> 
> > for my camera
> > [ajm at bsd]$ sudo mount_msdosfs /dev/da?s1 /usr/home/ajm/mnt/kodak
> 
> > for a memory card reader
> > [ajm at bsd]$ sudo mount_msdosfs /dev/da?s1 /usr/home/ajm/mnt/card_reader
> 
> > Just make sure you change the  ?  to an actual device number.
> > You do need to create the /mnt directories in your own home directory 
> > so that you can read and write to those devices as a regular user.
> 
> > Also use sudo to un mount the device:
> 
> > [ajm at bsd]$ sudo umount_msdosfs /dev/da?s1
> 
> > NOTE: I did not change anything in the /etc/devfs.conf or am I using 
> > amd(8).
> 
> That's not an absolute solution though, because it should work as a
> regular user (maybe with a bit of fenaggling). Besides, installing sudo
> is a security risk anyhow..
> - -Garrett
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Sudo...security risk???  It depends on how you set it up.  This is my 
setup:

See man visudo for a description of Defaults section...

# Defaults specification
Defaults env_reset
Defaults timestamp_timeout=0
Defaults tty_tickets
Defaults requiretty
Defaults passwd_timeout=1

# User privilege specification
root    ALL=(ALL) ALL
wtck57  ALL=/sbin/shutdown,/sbin/mount,/sbin/umount,\
/sbin/mount_msdosfs

# Uncomment to allow people in group wheel to run all commands
# %wheel        ALL=(ALL)       ALL

# Same thing without a password
# %wheel        ALL=(ALL)       NOPASSWD: ALL

As you can see I can only run certain commands from sudo...

-- 
Alexander
FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE i386