Re: Removable media security in FreeBSD

From: zk (zk_at_wspim.edu.pl)
Date: 06/08/03

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    Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 10:04:29 +0200
To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>

    On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 01:28:50AM -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
    > 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?
    >
    Create group floppy, chown 0:floopy /dev/floppy*, chmod g+rw /dev/fd0*
    and add user to group floppy.
    And vfs.usermount=1

    zk
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