From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 18 7:15:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 866D537B400 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 07:15:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from petasus.ch.intel.com (petasus.ch.intel.com [143.182.124.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0418243E4A for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 07:15:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pavan.balaji@intel.com) Received: from fmsmsxvs043.fm.intel.com (fmsmsxvs043.fm.intel.com [132.233.42.129]) by petasus.ch.intel.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/d: solo.mc,v 1.42 2002/05/23 22:21:11 root Exp $) with SMTP id g6I7HgG14735 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 07:17:42 GMT Received: from fmsmsx019.fm.intel.com ([132.233.42.130]) by fmsmsxvs043.fm.intel.com (NAVGW 2.5.2.11) with SMTP id M2002071807140911426 ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 07:14:09 -0700 Received: by fmsmsx019.fm.intel.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <3ZAX6F16>; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 07:15:18 -0700 Message-ID: <3D386AED1B47D411A94300508B11F18703BC5BCF@fmsmsx116.fm.intel.com> From: "Balaji, Pavan" To: "'Steve Mazerski'" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: /cdrom for normal users? Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 07:15:10 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG By default, cdrom is /dev/acd0c is only mountable by root in FreeBSD. You can make it mountable by normal users by changing the /etc/fstab entry to users,ro,noauto /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 users,ro,noauto 0 0 Pavan Balaji, Intel Corporation "Only the Paranoid Survive" -- Andy Grove > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Mazerski [mailto:smazerski@yahoo.co.jp] > Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 5:14 PM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: /cdrom for normal users? > > > > Is it the "done thing" in FreeBSD for normal users to mount CD-ROMs > in a local directory rather than /cdrom? > > As a normal user all I get is this: > > localuser > mount /cdrom > cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Operation not permitted > > despite changing the permissions on both the CD-ROM device and /cdrom > to 660 and ensuring the local user is in the relevant groups > > I can mount CD-ROMs in a directory owned by the normal user. > > I ask because in Linux, /cdrom is generally useable as a mount point > by all users. It's not a problem, just wondering. > > For reference: > > the relevant line in /etc/fstab: > > /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto > 0 0 > > vfs.usermount is set to 1, and yes, I have read this page: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.htm l#USER-FLOPPYMOUNT S.Mazerski To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message