From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 6 14:15:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA22013 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 14:15:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from localhost.zilker.net (jump-k56flex-0178.jumpnet.com [207.8.6.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA21978 for ; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 14:14:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marquard@zilker.net) Received: (from marquard@localhost) by localhost.zilker.net (8.8.8/8.8.3) id PAA12577; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 15:14:14 -0500 (CDT) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mounting CD ROM Drives References: <40F032B5A40@een1.eee.nottingham.ac.uk> From: Dave Marquardt Date: 06 Jun 1998 15:14:13 -0500 In-Reply-To: "Chris Roberts"'s message of "Sat, 6 Jun 1998 18:49:15 GMT0BST" Message-ID: <85hg1ythii.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.22/XEmacs 19.16 - "Lille" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Chris Roberts" 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