Re: problems mounting cdrom when not root

1998-09-14 Thread Justin Georgeson
Peter Frouman wrote: > On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Justin Georgeson wrote: > > > This is the coresponding entry in my /etc/fstab file: > > > > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,users > I think this should be 'user' instead of 'users' that fixed it, thanx. -- ___

Re: problems mounting cdrom when not root

1998-09-14 Thread drno
The problem is not the permissions on the cdrom device .. but on the mount command. # ls -lad /bin/mount -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root35876 May 1 01:26 /bin/mount* Built into the mount command are some safety checks to make sure normal users can't use it for 'bad things' ... you have a

Re: problems mounting cdrom when not root

1998-09-14 Thread Peter Frouman
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Justin Georgeson wrote: > This is the coresponding entry in my /etc/fstab file: > > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,users I think this should be 'user' instead of 'users' The 'user' option works for me but I've discovered that unless I use

problems mounting cdrom when not root

1998-09-14 Thread Justin Georgeson
This is the coresponding entry in my /etc/fstab file: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,users 0 0 But when I try to mount the cd, I get this: mount: only root can mount /dev/cdrom on /mnt/cdrom I've set the permissions on /dev/cdrom to 666, so that's not it. --