Mount /cdrom as non-root user - does this actually work for anyone?

[Chris Pressey]

On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 11:59:29 +1100
Gautam Gopalakrishnan <ggop at madras.dyndns.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 12:53:52AM +0000, Stacey Roberts wrote:
> > Hello,
> > As root I can mount and read the CD fine.., checking for non-root
> > user: exit
> > ~ $ mount /cdrom
> > cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Operation not permitted
> > ~ $ mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c ~/cdrom
> > cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Operation not permitted
> > ~ $
> > 
> > Attempting to mount to mount-point in user home dir:
> > ~ $ cd ~
> > ~ $ pwd
> > /home/stacey
> > ~ $ ls -ltra cdrom
> > total 6
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 stacey stacey 512 Jan 3 23:50 ./
> > drwxr-xr-x 31 stacey stacey 2560 Jan 3 23:50 ../
> > ~ $ mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c ~/cdrom
> > cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Operation not permitted
> > ~ $
> 
> chmod +s /sbin/umount /sbin/mount
> 
> works fine for me (without any other changes necessary). Don't know
> if it's the recommended procedure though.
> 
> Gautam

I worked around this a different way: I chown'd /dev/acd0c to the uid of
the user.  Probably *not* the recommended procedure :)

-Chris