can't mount CD ROM on non-root user

rsumbeling · 12-03-2004, 10:10 AM

Hi,

I have a question, when logged as non-root to my slack 10, and trying to mount a CD, an error message appears: "only root can mount /dev/cdrom on /mnt/cdrom". what can i do to mount a CD rom while im logged as non-root user? i'm installing the oracle 9i database on my slack 10.

by the way, oracle 9i cannot be installed if the user is root.

thanx

Andrew Benton · 12-03-2004, 10:35 AM

man mount talks about the options you can put in /etc/fstab to allow non root users to mount things.

Quote:

Thus, given a line
/dev/cdrom /cd iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide
any user can mount the iso9660 file system found on his CDROM using the
command
mount /dev/cdrom

rsumbeling · 12-03-2004, 11:06 AM

Thanx andrew,

i got another question, when i tried to run the program from that CD rom, i get a permission error:

"-sh: /mnt/cdrom/runInstaller: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied"

what can i do to have permission on running programs on CD rom??

thanx

sigsegv · 12-03-2004, 01:13 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by rsumbeling
"-sh: /mnt/cdrom/runInstaller: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied"

ln -s `which bash` /bin/sh