On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 02:26:58 -0800 (PST), Nicole Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should have a "device" /dev/cdrom that is a symbolic link to your real > CDROM device (/dev/hdc?). This link should be owned by root:cdrom. You can > then add users to the cdrom group and they can then mount the CDROM. $ date > foo.txt $ chmod 000 foo.txt $ ln -s foo.txt bar.txt $ ls -l total 4 lrwxr-xr-x 1 oohara oohara 7 Jan 1 21:04 bar.txt -> foo.txt ---------- 1 oohara oohara 29 Jan 1 21:04 foo.txt $ cat bar.txt cat: bar.txt: Permission denied
What is the use of permission of a symlink if I don't have permisssion of the real file? > You can > then add users to the cdrom group and they can then mount the CDROM. I can't mount my music CD because it has no file system. I need a direct access to /dev/hdc. By the way, I can mount a CD as a non-root user. /etc/fstab says: /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 -- Oohara Yuuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Graduate-school of Science, Kyoto University PGP Key (F464A695) http://www.interq.or.jp/libra/oohara/pub-key.txt Key fingerprint = 6142 8D07 9C5B 159B C170 1F4A 40D6 F42E F464 A695 I always put away what I take. --- Ryuji Akai, "Star away"
