Roland Smith wrote: > On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 08:04:19PM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote: >> Roland Smith wrote: >>> On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:46:36PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: >>>> Having trouble mounting the ISO: >>>> >>>> [dan...@bsdbox ~]$ sudo mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/`mdconfig -a -t vnode >>>> -f ./texlve2008.iso` ./mount/ >>>> mdconfig: open(/dev/mdctl): Permission denied >>> Regular users don't have read/write permissions on /dev/mdctl. >>> >>> So either change those permissions so that your user-id has those >>> permissions, or run mdconfig as root. >>> >> Hmmm, one might think that 'sudo' does exactly that ;-) > > It does that for the mount_cd9660 command, but _before_ sudo it called, > the code between backticks is executed by the shell as the regular user. > I thought that was obvious, so I didn't mention it. >
Ah, yeah, you're right. Sorry, missed that one. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"