Mounting devices on standard user account

[jjstorm]

How do you mount any device on an account that does not have access to the wheel group?


This works on the root account for cd0 and for sd2 <-flash drive.

# mount /dev/cd0c /mnt
# mount /dev/sd2i /mnt

However, the following results in 'permission denied' using a standard account.

$ mount /dev/cd0c /home/user/cdrom
$ mount /dev/sd2i /home/user/mnt

[J65nko]

That is because of permissions:

$ ls -l /dev/cd0c

brw-r-----  1 root  operator    6,   2 Dec 26  2012 /dev/cd0c

For one approach see see HOWTO: mounting an USB device as normal non-root user in OpenBSD.

You also can also use sudo or doas(1).

[jjstorm]

I took a brief look at the how to. I will be going that route.

Thank-you.