Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 17:12:41 -0800 From: Chris Pressey <cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: stacey@vickiandstacey.com Subject: Re: Mount /cdrom as non-root user - does this actually work for anyone? Message-ID: <20040103171241.209d23f4.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <20040104005929.GA70684@madras.dyndns.org> References: <20040104005352.GI6131@crom.vickiandstacey.com> <20040104005929.GA70684@madras.dyndns.org>
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On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 11:59:29 +1100 Gautam Gopalakrishnan <ggop@madras.dyndns.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 12:53:52AM +0000, Stacey Roberts wrote: > > Hello, > > As root I can mount and read the CD fine.., checking for non-root > > user: exit > > ~ $ mount /cdrom > > cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Operation not permitted > > ~ $ mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c ~/cdrom > > cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Operation not permitted > > ~ $ > > > > Attempting to mount to mount-point in user home dir: > > ~ $ cd ~ > > ~ $ pwd > > /home/stacey > > ~ $ ls -ltra cdrom > > total 6 > > drwxr-xr-x 2 stacey stacey 512 Jan 3 23:50 ./ > > drwxr-xr-x 31 stacey stacey 2560 Jan 3 23:50 ../ > > ~ $ mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c ~/cdrom > > cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Operation not permitted > > ~ $ > > chmod +s /sbin/umount /sbin/mount > > works fine for me (without any other changes necessary). Don't know > if it's the recommended procedure though. > > Gautam I worked around this a different way: I chown'd /dev/acd0c to the uid of the user. Probably *not* the recommended procedure :) -Chris
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