Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 15:11:08 +0200 From: Grant Speelman <grantg@xsinet.co.za> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: allowing users to mount cdrom again (thanks) Message-ID: <200407091511.08707.grantg@xsinet.co.za> In-Reply-To: <20040708083416.09bb708d.rpratt1950@earthlink.net> References: <200407080041.59032.grantg@xsinet.co.za> <20040708083416.09bb708d.rpratt1950@earthlink.net>
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On Thursday 08 July 2004 14:34, you wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 00:41:59 +0200 > > Grant Speelman <grantg@xsinet.co.za> wrote: > > Hi > > > > I read in the previous post about allowing users to mount cdrom > > and wanted to try it for myself > > I did the follow : > > > > added vfs.usermount=1 to /etc/sysctl.conf > > changed the permissions on /dev/acd0 to include the user > > restarted freebsd (It's amazing what a restart does for me > > sometimes) > > > > but this happens: > > > > Grant > mount /mnt/cdrom1 > > cd9660: /dev/acd1: Operation not permitted > > I suspect that you may be trying to mount (as a user) to a > mount point that the user (Grant) does not own. > > > I am working in Kde usings Kde's Konsole and have two cdroms on > > FreeBSD 5.2.1 > > Please help > > The FAQ has an entry about this: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USE >R-FLOPPYMOUNT > > Its easy to overlook that the ordinary users have to own the mount > point to be used. Follow the steps outlined there and see if that > takes care of your problem. > > HTH, > > Randy Thanks this helped with the problem. Grant
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