Jarrod Baumann ">kang@ams.com> wrote:
> Yes i think what you would want to do is chown users.whoever mount and
> umount so that they can use the program.
>
> kang
>
> On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Ben Conrad wrote:
>
> :Folks,
> :
> :How do I allow a user to mount a floppy/cdrom on a Linux box (RH 6.0)? I
> :can see that in /etc/group there is a group called floppy, I put myself in
> :that group, logged in again but I still can't mount the device.
> :
> :
> : mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> :mount: only root can do that
> :
> :Any suggestions?
> :
What you really need to do is edit /etc/fstab.
Find the line that says:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto,rw 0 0
and make it say:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 user,noauto,rw 0 0
This will allow users to mount the drive.
Also try using the command "man mount" followed by "man fstab" ;)
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Randy
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