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As someone who's used OpenBSD daily as a primary desktop OS, usermount will force me to use doas(1) (the replacement for sudo) to mount external media on my des
by ax0n 10y ago
As someone who's used OpenBSD daily as a primary desktop OS, usermount will force me to use doas(1) (the replacement for sudo) to mount external media on my desktops/laptops. No big deal. Honestly, I usually do that anyway, just force of habit. Checking my systems, I only set kern.usermount on my daily-driver laptop, and none of my other OpenBSD boxes.
None of the other changes impact anything I do on a daily basis. I haven't used Linux emulation since 2006 or so, and even then, it was a gigantic pain in the ass. The devs have a native virtual machine hypervisor in the works that I was hoping would be ready for prime-time in OpenBSD 6.0. I doubt it'll be ready that soon. This will provide a better option than the old Linux emulation layer.
- keithpeter 10y agoWould toad be of any use? http://ports.su/sysutils/toad http://ports.su/sysutils/toad
- ax0n 10y agoHotplugd is crazysauce. So much you can do with it. Toad claims to need kern.usermount so it won't work with a default install, and will be toadally broken once this option is removed in OpenBSD 6.0. I can't speak for all OpenBSD users, but I just end up putting my sd-card reader (which sees most FAT formatted cards at sd1i) and the first available USB external drive (again, usually sd2i for FAT) in my /etc/fstab and call the mount with doas. doas mount /sdcard Not that big of a deal.
- keithpeter 10y agoThanks for reply. 'toadally broken' indeed, I'm hoping that Antoine Jacoutot will come up with a clever work around. That or xfce4-mount-plugin I suppose with doas and a limited permission to run mount without a password.
- anthk 10y agoUse toad + rox :p