sudo passwords

[Charles C. Bennett, Jr.]

>      So I set up sudo to let users run simple commands like mount /dev/fd0 
>      /floppy, but it promps for a password... the root password.  This 
>      seems to defeat some of the functionality.  I'd like whoever to be 
>      able to mount a CDROM with out giving out the root password.

If you want to give certain users the ability to mount removable media,
why not add them to group floppy in the group file and make sure that
your CDROM block device is mode 664, group floppy?

ccb
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