Re: Mounting CD Rom

[John McKendry <jmckendry@attbi.com>]

Tom Droege wrote:
> 
> Can someone tell me how to mount a cdrom so that any user can get at it?  I
> have figured out how to attach it to my particular user, but I would like
> to make it available to all users. Running Mandrake 8.1.  Supermount does
> not seem to work.  At least not the way I think it should.
> 
Tom,

 Behavior of 'mount' and 'umount' is governed by the entries in the file
/etc/fstab. I have a Mandrake 8.1 system with this fstab entry for the CD-ROM:

/dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0

and I can mount the CD while logged in as root, log out, log in as jfm (a plain user
account), and read the CD. Not only that, I can unmount the CD and mount another one 
from the jfm account. (It surprises me that a user can unmount a CD that was mounted by root,
but that's what happens.) The keyword 'user' in the fstab entry makes it possible for any user
to mount and unmount the device.

 Is that what you're asking?

John