Thanks Fred, /cdrom is the mount point, so no I don't think it should be a symlink.
The command is: $ mount /dev/cd0a /cdrom mount_cd9660: /dev/cd0a on /cdrom: Operation not permitted On 12 November 2013 20:27, Fred <open...@crowsons.com> wrote: > On 11/12/13 18:56, Laurence Rochfort wrote: >> >> Thanks Tomas, >> >> I have set kern.usermount=1 now and added myself to the operator >> group, but still get operation denied when trying to mount a cdrom. >> >> Does the below look right? >> >> Thank you >> >> $ sysctl kern.usermount >> kern.usermount=1 >> >> $ groups >> laurence wheel operator >> >> $ ls -l / | grep cdrom >> drwxrwxr-x 2 root operator 512 Nov 8 14:29 cdrom >> >> $ ls -l /dev/cd* >> brwxrw---- 1 root operator 6, 0 Nov 8 14:13 /dev/cd0a >> brw-rw---- 1 root operator 6, 2 Nov 8 14:13 /dev/cd0c >> brw-r----- 1 root operator 6, 16 Nov 8 14:13 /dev/cd1a >> brw-r----- 1 root operator 6, 18 Nov 8 14:13 /dev/cd1c >> > > Surely /cdrom should be a symbolic link to /dev/cd0a? > > ie: > > ln -fs /dev/cd0a /cdrom > > hth > > Fred > > PS what command are you running that gives an operation denied?
