Removable media security in FreeBSD

Brett Glass brett at lariat.org
Sun Jun 8 00:28:56 PDT 2003


I'm working with a FreeBSD user -- a teacher -- who's running KDE on a system
on which she neither has nor wants root privileges. She wants to be able to
mount and unmount floppies and ZIP cartridges from within KDE, using the
standard KwikDisk utility (which, by the way, generates mount and unmount
command that don't conform to FreeBSD syntax; however, it appears possible
to fix this by customizing the commands).

I don't want to open up the floppy and ZIP drives to all users simultaneously,
since this would allow anyone to write someone else's removable media. Is
there a standard, SECURE way of allowing an unprivileged user at the console
to get at removable media that s/he has inserted in the machine?

--Brett Glass



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