From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 25 3:51:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-2.sjc.telocity.net (mail-2.sjc.telocity.net [216.227.56.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E56937B479 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 03:51:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zoso (dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com [216.227.91.85]) by mail-2.sjc.telocity.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id DAA07399; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 03:48:16 -0700 (PDT) From: "Otter" To: "Herbert Pirke" , Subject: RE: Mounting CD-Roms as a normal user Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 06:56:03 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20001025100012.23423.qmail@web10607.mail.yahoo.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG if you need to use root permissions as a nomal user *cough*mount*cough*, check out sudo. with out su'ing to root, i think that's the only way the cd is gonna get mounted by a user. -Otter p.s. don't sweat it. we were all newbies once. just learn it and don't continue to be a newbie! }-----Original Message----- }From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG }[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of }Herbert Pirke }Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 6:00 AM }To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG }Subject: Mounting CD-Roms as a normal user } } }Hi! } }This is probably a stupid question. God, it's so }difficult to cover the fact beeing a newbee... } }I installed FreeBSD 4.0 for the first time and }realised, that I can't mount my CD-rom as a normal }user. The file attributes of the device and the }mounting directory give access to all users. But it }still says somthing like "mounting not permitted...". } }Can anybody help me with this embarrasing problem? } }Herbert } }__________________________________________________ }Do You Yahoo!? }Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. }http://im.yahoo.com/ } } }To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org }with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message