Re: Re: hang during boot - mount: only root can do that

2011-10-12 Thread Ad L.
Permissions can be a proper pain ;P Had some problems myself a couple of times that ended up being solved by simply invoking chown or chmod to apply correct settings... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: hang during boot - mount: only root can do that

2011-10-03 Thread Joel Roth
On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 12:04:12AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > Rebooting, I get this error: > > INIT: version 2.88 booting > using makefile-style concurrent boot in runlevel S > mount: only root can do that (effect UID is 1000) Permissions problem. /sbin/init is no

hang during boot - mount: only root can do that

2011-10-03 Thread Joel Roth
only root can do that (effect UID is 1000) Similar errors continue, with warnings about a read-only filesystem, compounding until the system hangs. Any ideas what could be wrong? Thanks, -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: mount: only root can do that

2005-06-01 Thread Felix Natter
xample command i'm using to try to mount along with it's > output: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount -t auto /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 > mount: only root can do that try "mount /media/cdrom0". If you add device and -t, then it no longer corresponds to the fstab-entry, whe

Re: mount: only root can do that

2005-06-01 Thread Gregory Seidman
evice. } } here's the fstab: [...] } /dev/hdc/media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 This is correct. } and here's an example command i'm using to try to mount along with it's } output: } } [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount -t auto /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 } mou

mount: only root can do that

2005-06-01 Thread jmr_071769
0 /dev/hdc/media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0/media/floppy0 autorw,user,noauto 0 0 and here's an example command i'm using to try to mount along with it's output: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount -t auto /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 mount: o

Re: mount: only root can do that??

1998-01-27 Thread David Wright
On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > But what I want is this: > > 1 root can mount anything > 2 users in group floppy can mount the floppy drive > 3 users not in group floppy can not mount the floppy drive > > Of course, 1 is always true. But I can't get 2 and 3 at the same time. > Eith

Re: mount: only root can do that??

1998-01-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Remco Blaakmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But what I want is this: > > 1 root can mount anything > 2 users in group floppy can mount the floppy drive > 3 users not in group floppy can not mount the floppy drive > > Of course, 1 is always true. But I can't get 2 and 3 at the same time. > Eith

Floppy and CDROM-Mount with amd (was: mount: only root can do that)

1998-01-27 Thread Albert Fluegel
Hello ! As a suggestion how to use the amd automounter to mount floppies and cdroms check out the contents of the directory: ftp://134.147.254.50/pub/linux Regards, Albert Fluegel email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.muc.de/~af -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: mount: only root can do that??

1998-01-27 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, David Wright wrote: > > However, when mount is not setuid root, only root can mount filesystems. > > Any user, whether a member of the floppy group or not, gets this: > > > > $ mount /floppy > > mount: must be superuser to use mount > > $ > > > > Note that the error is a di

Re: mount: only root can do that??

1998-01-27 Thread Jarkko Niemi
>Try changing the permissions on /dev/cdrom to read and execute for all. >For the floppy chmod 666 /dev/fd0 should do the trick > >Jonathan Just tested that to floppy. Now mtools works by users also. I recommend all to install these mtools, these are very good when disks are used as transfer med

Re: mount: only root can do that??

1998-01-27 Thread David Wright
> When /bin/mount is setuid root, everybody can mount the floppy drive. When > someone tries to mount something that is not in /etc/fstab, I get this > error: > > mount: only root can do that > > I didn't expect it because mount is setuid root, but this is okay to me

Re: mount: only root can do that??

1998-01-27 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Try changing the permissions on /dev/cdrom to read and execute for all. For the floppy chmod 666 /dev/fd0 should do the trick Jonathan On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > > > Hallo, > > > > I am trying to change /etc/fstab to allow the user to mount the floppy and > > the cdrom

Re: mount: only root can do that??

1998-01-27 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
7; group. The same applies for 'cdrom'. I thought this was true, but it doesn't seem to be true anymore somehow. I am following hamm closely and using shadow passwords. When /bin/mount is setuid root, everybody can mount the floppy drive. When someone tries to mount something that i

Re: mount: only root can do that??

1998-01-27 Thread Johann Spies
On 26 Jan 1998, Paul Seelig wrote: > The command "mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy" works only for root, but > "mount /floppy" should properly work for every user who is member of > the 'floppy' group. The same applies for 'cdrom'. Thanks. I did not know that. As a user I tried "mount /dev/fd0

Re: mount: only root can do that??

1998-01-26 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hallo, > > I am trying to change /etc/fstab to allow the user to mount the floppy and > the cdrom. > > The following lines did not help: > > /dev/cdrom/cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,user 0 0 > /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos defaults,noauto,user0 0

mount: only root can do that??

1998-01-26 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, I am trying to change /etc/fstab to allow the user to mount the floppy and the cdrom. The following lines did not help: /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,user 0 0 /dev/fd0/floppy msdos defaults,noauto,user0 0 Why not? Johan