From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 11 9:39:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F17B37B406 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:39:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost.ds.psu.edu [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8BGdB349912; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:39:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200109111639.f8BGdB349912@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Carl Tucker Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mounting cdrom by user In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Sep 2001 20:45:54 -1000." <20010910204554.A18222@bullwinkle.local> From: dochawk@psu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:39:11 -0400 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 carl cuestoned, > Is it possible for a non-privileged user to mount/umount the cdrom? > ISTR in Linux, you could put an option on the entry in /etc/fstab > to allow non-root users to mount it, but I don't see it in > man fstab or man mount. Generally, you must own a drectory, not merely have rwx, to mount. hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message