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Date:      Thu, 18 Jul 2002 15:15:23 -0700
From:      Adam Weinberger <adam@vectors.cx>
To:        Steve Mazerski <smazerski@yahoo.co.jp>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /cdrom for normal users?
Message-ID:  <20020718221523.GB40735@vectors.cx>
In-Reply-To: <200207182145.12216.smazerski@yahoo.co.jp>
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user localhost doesn't have access to read from /dev/acd0c.

-Adam


>> (07.18.2002 @ 1245 PST): Steve Mazerski said, in 3.5K: <<
> On Thursday 18 July 2002 23:20, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> > there is no such parameter passable to mount called "users". it needs to
> > be removed. if you can mount it from the command line, you should make
> > the fstab line agree with it, and i see no reason why it wouldn't then
> > work.
> >
> > keep in mind that in your fstab, you are attempting to mount the CDROM
> > onto /cdrom. on the command-line, you mounted it onto ~/cdrom. does
> > localuser have permissions on /cdrom? what are those permissions right
> > now?
> 
> As posted in the prior mail:
> 
>   localuser@localhost > ls -ld /cdrom
>   drwxrwxr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Jul 14 18:10 /cdrom
>   localuser@localhost > ls -l /dev/acd0c
>   crw-rw----  4 root  operator  117,   0 Jul 14 18:15 /dev/acd0c
>   localuser@localhost > groups
>   localuser wheel operator
> 
> setting /etc/fstab with
> 
>   /dev/acd0c	/cdrom	cd9660	ro,noauto 0 0
> 
> produces:
> 
> localuser@localhost > mount /cdrom
> cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Operation not permitted
> 
> Am I missing something, or is something missing me? ;-)
> 
> S.Mazerski
> 
> 
> > >> (07.18.2002 @ 1154 PST): Steve Mazerski said, in 2.1K: <<
> > >
> > > On Thursday 18 July 2002 20:09, Daniel Bye wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 07:15:10AM -0700, Balaji, Pavan wrote:
> > > > > By default, cdrom is /dev/acd0c is only mountable by root in FreeBSD.
> > > > > You can make it mountable by normal users by changing the /etc/fstab
> > > > > entry to users,ro,noauto
> > > > >
> > > > > /dev/acd0c              /cdrom          cd9660 users,ro,noauto   0
> > > > > 0
> > > >
> > > > Hmm, just edited my /etc/fstab to look like this, and I get a different
> > > > message:
> > > >
> > > > cd9660: -o users: option not supported
> > >
> > > That's what I got when I borrowed the relevent line from my Linux
> > > /etc/fstab. Being a hopeless beginner I presumed this was a naive
> > > error on my part and discretely forgot to mention it.
> > >
> > > > However, google brought me this:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FL
> > > >OPPY MOUNT
> > >
> > > Thanks, but been there, done that (see my original mail).
> > >
> > > So, what's up? At the moment things look like this?
> > >
> > > localuser@localhost > uname -a
> > > FreeBSD localhost.local 4.6-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE #0: Sun Jul 14
> > > 17:14:44 CEST 2002     root@localhost.local:/usr/src/sys/compile/KERNEL_1
> > > i386
> > >
> > > (I recompiled the kernel for ext2fs support)
> > >
> > > root# sysctl -a | fgrep vfs\.usermount
> > > vfs.usermount: 1
> > >
> > > localuser@localhost > ls -ld /cdrom
> > > drwxrwxr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Jul 14 18:10 /cdrom
> > > localuser@localhost > ls -l /dev/acd0c
> > > crw-rw----  4 root  operator  117,   0 Jul 14 18:15 /dev/acd0c
> > > localuser@localhost > groups
> > > localuser wheel operator
> > > localuser@localhost > cat /etc/fstab | fgrep cdrom
> > > /dev/acd0c              /cdrom          cd9660  ro,noauto,users 0       0
> > > localuser@localhost > mount /cdrom
> > > cd9660: -o users: option not supported
> > > localuser@localhost >  mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c  ~/cdrom
> > > localuser@localhost >  ls ~/cdrom
> > > EULA            README          RedHat          autorun
> > > GPL             RPM-GPG-KEY     TRANS.TBL
> > >
> > > (well, it was the first one I had to hand ;-)
> > >
> > > Any ideas? Just wondering...
> > > (I may of course be overlooking something).
> > >
> > > S.Mazerski
> > >
> > >
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> > >> end of "Re: /cdrom for normal users?" from Steve Mazerski <<
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