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To: "Michael G." <mikegoe@earthlink.net>
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	Herbert Pirke <freebsd_help@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Mounting CD-Roms as a normal user
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I'm jumping in here to say thanks, your advise worked perfectly.
I 
really didn't like su'ing just to mount and umount disks.


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Chip W.	
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"Michael G." wrote:
> 
> 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
> >
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