CD mounting problems

FirebarUK · 17 Mar 2006 at 11:29

Hi all,

Got some problems with a RedHat machine. I can't mount the cdrom as any user other than root. I would have thought there were some restrictions in the /etc/fstab but there don't seem to be, its identical to that of many other machines where things work fine;

/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,users,exec,ro 0 0

I would have thought that would be? it seems as though the actual "mount" command won't run as root;

mount: only root can do that

Any ideas? Thanks for any help.

Vonhelmet · 17 Mar 2006 at 12:13

At a guess...

Try doing chmod +s /bin/mount

FirebarUK · 17 Mar 2006 at 12:22

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. I've tried that, unfortunately it didn't change anything.

One thing I've noticed now though, is that it is actually mounting the CD, but to /misc/cdrom in fstab it should be mounting it to /mnt/cdrom :confused:

Rojon · 17 Mar 2006 at 23:41

You could maybe change the ownership of the file using 'chown'.

The cdrom line in my fstab looks like:

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

I'm sure using 'user' lets a normal user mount the drive.

Hope that helps

FirebarUK · 19 Mar 2006 at 20:45

Ta, but no joy. Nevermind guys, going to put it down to a quirky RedHat Workstation 3 update 5