neil writes:

> Running Freebsd 6.2, as a regular user I cant seem to play a CD - but
> it works as root.
> I used sysctl vfs.usermount to see the status and it came back as
> 0. So I changed this value to 1 by sysctl -w vfs.usermount=1 and then
> edited /etc/sysctl.conf and put in vfs.usermount=1.
>
> Problems:
> 1. everytime i boot up - vfs.usermount is always 0. It seems that the
> entry in /etc/sysctl.conf is being ignored.
>
> 2. Even if i do change vfs.usermount to 1, I still cant play a CD as a
> regular user.
>
> Help please

The sysctl is irrelevant; playing CDs does not involve mounting the
disk. All you should need is read access to the device file, which is
probably /dev/acd0. You can adjust devfs.conf(5) to give the access
if it isn't happening by default; but I thought it was on a default
install. You don't mention what you actually do to play the CDs, but
the standard program is cdcontrol(1). Try "cdcontrol -v play" and
check its output and any log output that may have occurred.

You might want to look at
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...s/article.html
for some advice on asking questions in the most effective way.

Good luck.

Here's a handy link I found about user mountable devices on FreeBSD -
it's for 5.3 but it's still applicable for stable.

http://caia.swin.edu.au/reports/041130A/