Date: 06 Jun 1998 15:14:13 -0500 From: Dave Marquardt <marquard@zilker.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mounting CD ROM Drives Message-ID: <85hg1ythii.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> In-Reply-To: "Chris Roberts"'s message of "Sat, 6 Jun 1998 18:49:15 GMT0BST" References: <40F032B5A40@een1.eee.nottingham.ac.uk>
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"Chris Roberts" <EEYRCR@een1.eee.nott.ac.uk> writes: > I am a new user of FreeBSD (and any type of UNIX for that matter) > and have a question about mounting my cdrom. When logged in as root, > I can mount the cdrom drive with the following command. > > # mount -t cd9660 -o ro /dev/wcd0a /cdrom > > And this seems to work fine. If I then log off and log in as > another user (which is the first one I've ever made, so I probably > did it wrong) and type the same command, I get an error message, > something along the lines of 'Permission Denied'. Do I have to give > the new user permission to read the drive or something? I have made > the user a member of the wheel group but that didn't help! > > Any Ideas? Did you unmount /cdrom before you logged out as root? If not, then all the other user needs to do is just use /cdrom, e.g. `ls /cdrom'. -Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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