From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 25 20:26:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F392C37B4CF for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 20:26:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Nikki (user-33qt5ls.dialup.mindspring.com [199.174.150.188]) by harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA06806; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 20:26:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200010260326.UAA06806@harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net> From: "Michael G." To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "Herbert Pirke" Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 22:26:03 -0500 Reply-To: "Michael G." X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 98 (4.10.1998) In-Reply-To: <20001025100012.23423.qmail@web10607.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Mounting CD-Roms as a normal user Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You first need to make sure your "user" is in the group wheel, then as root type "chmod 4550 /sbin/mound_cd9660". You will need to do the same to "umount" to unmount the cd as well. This is what I run after I've upgraded my system to -Stable and I've never had a problem. Later... Michae G. On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 03:00:12 -0700 (PDT), Herbert Pirke wrote: >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 > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Buick Performance...Driving fast with Class Passing everything but gas stations 71 Skylark Custom ICQ #24517082 mikegoe@earthlink.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message