Hello All,

I have a need for a user to run a script I wrote that contains a section to mount a cd & then later umount it. Running SuSE10 in runlevel3

The user was unable to mount the drive said must be superuser to mount.

I verified the fstab file was correctly configured :

/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user 0 0


I was able to make this work by changing the permissions on /bin/mount & /bin/umount with a suid ( chmod +s /bin/mount )

The user was then able to mount the cd.

My question is, the suid basically opens the cd for anybody to be able to mount it. I wanted to limit who had the ability. The last thing I tried was visudo the sudoers file as below:

loadqas ALL=NOPASSWD:/bin/mount /media/cdrom,/bin/umount /media/cdrom

Also tried it as :

loadqas ALL=NOPASSWD:/bin/mount,/bin/umount

Shouldn't that have worked with the sudoers change???

Thanks,

Steve

The sysadmin should edit /etc/sudoers to specify the user by name, and the command that user is allowed to run as root.

Then edit the script to add 'sudo' to the mount command.

The user then runs the script.