cdrom access for non-root user

T-O7 · Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 10:24 pm Post subject: cdrom access for non-root user

Hey all,
I was wondering if anyone could tell me how exactly i can change the permission access for my non-root user so that it can gain access to the cdrom and its contents. Is there something i have to change in /etc/fstab or anything?
Thanks a lot.

geniux · Veteran Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 1400 Location: /home

You can add user to your fstab

czo · Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 10:39 pm Post subject:

in /etc/fstab

You the line contains you cd-rom drive you have to set user as a "option" .

/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,unhide,ro 0 0

this is the setting for my cdrom drive... can this help you??

czo · Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 10:41 pm Post subject:

geniux · Veteran Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 1400 Location: /home

T-O7 · Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 2:10 am Post subject:

Hmm...

Okay, i've tried changing both files. This is exactly what i have in fstab:

geniux · Veteran Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 1400 Location: /home

But you can do the command
mount /mnt/cdrom (or whereever your cdrom are mounted)
dont you?
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T-O7 · Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 1:39 pm Post subject:

It says only the root user can mount stuff, when i try to mount cdrom in my normal user session. Is this something i have to change in order to see my cd with non-root users?

geniux · Veteran Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 1400 Location: /home

Try changing your /mnt/cdrom to users

T-O7 · Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 3:27 pm Post subject:

Okay, so I typed the above line:

T-O7 · Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 3:32 pm Post subject:

Hmm...i don't know if this has anything to do with it, but whenever i enter the terminal for my normal user, i get three lines of

geniux · Veteran Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 1400 Location: /home

Ok, try

T-O7 · Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 4:31 pm Post subject:

I tried the chmod code and it still didn't work, so then I tried the chown code, and it finally worked!!! Thanks a lot, geniux, for all your help!

Now, i wonder why nautilus doesn't show the cd's music files....that's still a little strange. But thanks again!

geniux · Veteran Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 1400 Location: /home

I think that nautilus only shows mounted data-files, and not audio-files. I'm not sure but it looks like it, when I had gnome nautilus didn't show my audio's.

Great it worked out
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czo · Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 10:23 pm Post subject:

if you use gnome emerge devmagic or magicdev.. don't remember the name