strange mount issue

[Frank Wiles]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:07:04 -0600
"Brian Densmore" <DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com> wrote:

> Ok, this morning I tried mounting a cd on my laptop.
> It told me only root can do that.
> So I logged in as root changed the /mnt/cdrom ownership 
> to root.cdrom and also the /dev/hdb and /dev/cdrom.
> I am a member of disk and cdrom. I gave /mnt/cdrom 775
> permissions. I don't think I changed the /dev permissions.
> I still can only mount as root. Is there something I'm missing?
> Do I need to change the /dev permissions to 775?

  You need to tell /etc/fstab that users are allowed to control
  the device. Change 'owner' to 'user'. 


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   Frank Wiles <frank at wiles.org>
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