Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 10:54:35 +0100 (BST) From: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> To: "Chris Roberts" <EEYRCR@een1.eee.nott.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mounting CD ROM Drives Message-ID: <199806080954.KAA12409@hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <67568222@toto.iv>
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Chris Roberts said: >Hi, > 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? > Yup -- use the automounter daemon (amd). There was a thread here a week or so ago on this very question, subject line "Automount the CDROM?". It should all be in the mail archives on www.freebsd.org (you might have to wait a few days for the most recent stuff to get into the archive). Scott. -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> | 0x54B171B9 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" QMW College, London, UK | 0xAA775B8B | -- J. S. Bach. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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