User permissions to mount CDROM

Tue Aug 29 05:27:10 UTC 2006

Viswas Nair wrote:
> I have been trying to figure out how to give users to mount CD rom and have
> been largely unsuccessful. Here are a few things I tried:
> 1) Added user to the 4th field (options) in /etc/fstab
> 2) Added vfs.usermount=1 to  sysctl.conf
> 3) Created a group called optical and added the root and alpha to it
> 4) Added following lines to devfs,conf :
> own /dev/acd0 root:optical
> perm /dev/acd0 0770
> own /dev/acd1 root:optical
> perm /dev/acd1 0770

User must have access to the mount point as well, eg. /cdrom.

	Svein Halvor

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