Superuser for Mount?

Jskill007 · 08-29-2004, 01:20 PM

As a normal user I am unable to mount drives. I tried to change the permissions of /bin/mount to 777 but I receive "mount: must be superuser to use mount". How can I upgrade my normal account to a superuser?

ringwraith · 08-29-2004, 01:24 PM

You need to edit /etc/fstab so that the drive in question has user instead of owner

Nikon01 · 08-29-2004, 01:54 PM

The above didn't work for me, so as a second option you can setup sudo. Just type "visudo" w/o quotes of course and add in the line "USER_NAME ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" and save it. You do have to use vi but it's pretty simple to find a simple how to use vi guide off of google.

Jskill007 · 08-29-2004, 02:37 PM

I updated my fstab to this however I still receive the same error that only superuser can mount.

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro,user 0 0

XavierP · 08-29-2004, 02:43 PM

replace the word "owner" with the word "user" (and take out the second "user")

ringwraith · 08-29-2004, 10:53 PM

/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrw iso9660 noauto,user 0 0

just as an example