permissions on /dev/hdc were root:cdrom, 640.  The user was in the cdrom
group, couln even cd into /mnt/cdrom.  Mount options were: nosuid,
noexec, user, nodev, noauto.

any of this wrong?

On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 18:59, Arnab_Ganguly wrote:
> I'd still say check permissions as this happened to me once before and was a
> permissions problem. Check through permissions for /dev and also check the
> /etc/fstab for user permissions to mount etc. This could of course be
> something more involved, but let us look at the simple ones first.
> 
> Arnab
> 
> > ----------
> > From:       Darren King[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Reply To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent:       Monday, November 12, 2001 1:20 PM
> > To:         [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject:    RE: [expert] user permission for cd-rom (8.0)
> > 
> > <<File: message.footer.txt>>
> > I changed the permissions but that had no effect.  I fixed it by setting
> > the security level to medium, when it was at high.  Anyone know of any
> > problems with having my system using the medium security setting?
> > 
> > Darren
> > 
> > On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 18:14, Arnab_Ganguly wrote:
> > > They generally are able to without any problem on my machine running MDK
> > > 8,0. Please check the permissions for /dev/cdrom, /dev/hdd or whatever
> > your
> > > cdrom is referred to.
> > > 
> > > Arnab
> > > 
> > > > ----------
> > > > From:   Darren King[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > Reply To:       [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Sent:   Monday, November 12, 2001 12:36 PM
> > > > To:     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject:        [expert] user permission for cd-rom (8.0)
> > > > 
> > > > <<File: message.footer.txt>>
> > > > How do I get users to be able to read cd-roms?  I put the users I want
> > > > to read the cd in the cdrom group and made cdrom the group owner of
> > > > hdc.  Still I get permission denied when I try to cd to /mnt/cdrom. 
> > > > Shouldn't users be able to read cdroms by default?
> > > > 
> > > > Darren
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
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