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From: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
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To: "Chris Roberts" <EEYRCR@een1.eee.nott.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Mounting CD ROM Drives
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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.

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