On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Anand Kumria wrote: > On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Benoit Joly wrote: > > > i want to allow normal user to use mount for floppy and cdrom. > > because i dont want to run apps in root account... > > what should i do. > > One of the options you can specify to mount is the 'user' option which > allows ordinary users to mount a filesystem. Check 'man 8 mount' for > further details.
Yes, but there is more to this. The disk, floppy and cdrom devices (I mean the /dev/* files for them) have permissions 0660 on a default Debian system, so that normal users can't access them. The solution to this is _not_ to make the permissions 0666, but to make the user a member of the group that owns the device, i.e. # adduser user1 floppy if you want the user with username 'user1' to be able to access the floppy devices. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
