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Hey there,
i am wanting to set a debian system ( with gnome) to allow the regular user to mount and unmount a drive ( cd-rw, and dvd ) . can i do this with fstab ? how does auto mount work.
thanks,
Yes, it is possible, a lot of distro's are setup so that they don't run as root, but the default regular user can mount/umount drives. I believe it has something to do with using the "sudo" command (and settings in /etc/sudoers). Sorry I can't give any more info, but I'm sure somebody will.
by using chown username and point that to ur cdrom (hdb, hdd, ........ it depend on which ur cdrom is location, and make sure take a look at ur /etc/fstab)
also then change the argument to /mnt/cdrom
Distribution: Slackware 10.2 kernel 2.6.13, Gentoo amd64, Some mish-mash of programs that started with slack 9.0
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Change or add the line in /etc/fstab
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9600 nonauto,users,ro 0 0
Of course you will want to change the device and the mount point to suit your system
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