On Thursday 18 October 2001 00:22, you wrote: > Kent, > Do you want to change the rights on the file? device? I think what you > really want is to change the way the device is mounted, not the rights. > Heres the way mandrake mounts cdroms, so users can access them, and so they > can be opened/changed w/out using a mount command... > > try this entry in your /etc/fstab, comment out your other line for the cd, > and add this one... > /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
This is what my /etc/fstab file contains. Well almost, actually its: /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/cdrom,fs=iso9660 0 0 > > then unmount /dev/cdrom > then mount -a (this reads the fstab to mount all mount points) > > all of the above will have to be done as root (hehe scissors cool!) > > Jamie > > On Friday 19 October 2001 10:23 am, you wrote: > > How do I set my access rights so I can access my CD-ROM? > > > > When I check my rights on /dev/cdrom it says that it is owned by root but > > user, group, and other all have read, write, and execute rights to it. > > > > The /dev directory shows other with read and execute rights to it. So it > > seems to me that I should be able to access this CD-ROM to play music > > from it.
