[plug] Just started with linux, need help

[John Summerfield]

> Ari Finander wrote:
> > 
> > Christian,
> > 
> >      Tried your advice and edited the fstab file as root...now the system
> > will let me access the 'usermount' GUI but it still says that mounting of
> > devices is restricted to superuser.  For those of you tuning into this late
> ,
> > my goal is to be able to get regular users to be able to access floppy,
> > cdrom, and cdrive.

This works for me:

[summer at possum summer]$ grep floppy /etc/fstab
/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    
noauto,user,nodev,noexec

noauto means don't mount unless specifically requested
user	anyone can do it
nodev	Don't use any devices in that filesystem
noexec	Don't run any programs from that filesystem

There are other options. Root can override them.
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Cheers
John Summerfield
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