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using drives as a user, not root

Hello every one again,

Wow two post from me in 24 hours. I have pretty much got my computer setup with slackware 8.1 not including the new nvidia drivers for my video card. (what a pain). Now im trying to figure out how to get away from root and start using my computer as a user. What I gather is it is much safer to log in as a user than root. I have made a user and can log in with no problems. I even have X up and running through my user account. But when I try to mount a cd to play music or try to mount my zip drive to save some files I can not do it. I have tried changing the permissions on the /dev/hdc (cdrom drive) to 666 and even 777 using chmod under root. I have change the /mnt/cdrom mode to 666 or 777. No luck doing it that way. What am I missing? Is there a eaiser way to do this without changing every folder for standerd user needs. Thanks for you help everyone.

You need to change your fstab to include the 'user' option. For example assuming your CD-ROM is /dev/cdrom, your Floppy drive is /dev/fd0 and your Zip drive is /dev/hdc then you would want something like the following in fstab

Code:

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

/dev/fd0  /mnt/floppy auto    noauto,user      0  0

/dev/hdc  /mnt/zip    auto    noauto,user      0    0

Check out the manpage for mount for more options. Your normal user could then issue

Code:

mount /mnt/zip

to mount the Zip drive (for example).

HTH

Jamie...