Re: mount cdrom problem

["Jeremy"<vector ezy net>]

Dom,

As I have never attempted mounting the cdrom as a user I didn't know what to
expect. I did the same as you and added "user" to the cdrom line in fstab:

/dev/cdrom      /mnt/cdrom      iso9660  user,exec,dev,suid,ro,noauto 0 0

I then attempted to mount the cdrom using what you used:

bash$ mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mount: only root can do that

Hmmm...didn't seem to work. So I figured I would do some research.

bash$ man mount

..hmmm this looks interesting----
(iii) Normally, only the superuser can mount file systems.  However, when fstab
contains the user option on a line, then anybody can mount the corresponding
system.

       Thus, given a line
              /dev/cdrom  /cd  iso9660  ro,user,noauto,unhide
       any user can mount the iso9660 file system found on his CDROM using the
command
*****>>>>              mount /dev/cdrom
       or
              mount /cd
       For more details, see fstab(5).  Only the user that mounted a filesystem
can unmount it again.  If any user should be able to unmount, then use users
instead of user  in  the
       fstab line.

I especially looked at the line "mount /dev/cdrom" or "mount /mnt/cdrom" in
my case either will work.

I attempted this:

bash$ mount /mnt/cdrom
bash$

bingo!!!!!

bash$ umount /mnt/cdrom
bash$

wow aren't man pages great. This should fix you up unless your system is way
different then mine (Intel/RH6.0). Let me know if you are still having problems.


Jeremy


>mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
>
>In a previous message, I indicated that this command
>succeeded as root, but not when signed in as plain user,
>named 'dbekarge', created via linuxconf utility.
>
>An error message appears that only root can mount the cdrom.
>
>Some correspondents to this email list suggested
>a check of directory and file permissions.
>
>The command
>
>ls -l
>
>of the / and /mnt directories showed that the file
>permissions were
>
>drwxr-xr-x
>
>for both of these directories.
>
>I double-checked my modification of the /etc/fstab file.
>The options for the cdrom line indeed are:
>
>user,noauto,ro
>
>Despite reading several HOWTO documents, and sections
>of some beginner's books, I still can't figure out how to mount
>the cdrom as a user.
>
>Dom Bekarge
><dbekarge netzero net>
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