Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 12:11:18 +1100 From: Gautam Gopalakrishnan <ggop@madras.dyndns.org> To: Chris Pressey <cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> Cc: stacey@vickiandstacey.com Subject: Re: Mount /cdrom as non-root user - does this actually work for anyone? Message-ID: <20040104011118.GA71333@madras.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20040103171241.209d23f4.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> References: <20040104005352.GI6131@crom.vickiandstacey.com> <20040104005929.GA70684@madras.dyndns.org> <20040103171241.209d23f4.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu>
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On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 05:12:41PM -0800, Chris Pressey wrote: > On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 11:59:29 +1100 > Gautam Gopalakrishnan <ggop@madras.dyndns.org> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 12:53:52AM +0000, Stacey Roberts wrote: > > > Hello, > > > As root I can mount and read the CD fine.., checking for non-root > > > user: exit > > > ~ $ mount /cdrom > > > cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Operation not permitted > > > ~ $ mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c ~/cdrom > > > cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Operation not permitted > > > ~ $ > > > > > > Attempting to mount to mount-point in user home dir: > > > ~ $ cd ~ > > > ~ $ pwd > > > /home/stacey > > > ~ $ ls -ltra cdrom > > > total 6 > > > drwxr-xr-x 2 stacey stacey 512 Jan 3 23:50 ./ > > > drwxr-xr-x 31 stacey stacey 2560 Jan 3 23:50 ../ > > > ~ $ mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c ~/cdrom > > > cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Operation not permitted > > > ~ $ > > > > chmod +s /sbin/umount /sbin/mount > > > > works fine for me (without any other changes necessary). Don't know > > if it's the recommended procedure though. > > > > Gautam > > I worked around this a different way: I chown'd /dev/acd0c to the uid of > the user. Probably *not* the recommended procedure :) I guess a cleaner solution is to add the user to the operator group and chmod to 664. Gautam
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