Please, when you quote an error message, quote it exactly. You can
capture a session with script, or redirect stdout and stderr to a
file with, say,
umount /cdrom &>oops
or so.
Because the mount/umount system call is privileged, for a user to mount
or umount a fs, the mount and umount commands must be suid, or he will
get an error like this:
umount: /dev/hdb: must be superuser to umount
if that is the problem, you can
chmod u+s /bin/umount
or so.
A user may specify _either_ a mount point _or_ a device that identifies
a line if fstab with the user option. If you specify both, or lead it
to believe you are, it will think you are trying to override fstab, and
reply:
umount: only root can unmount /dev/hdb from /cdrom
I got that by saying "umount /dev/hdb /cdrom", curiously, cdrom was no
longer mounted after that. I guess you could call that a bug. :-)
Lawson
>< Microsoft free environment
This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
> Ok... I've edited my fstab file to properly point to the cdrom as
/dev/hdc.
> I've set it up with the options "noauto, user, ro" Now, with my
"regular user"
> account, I can mount the cdrom, but I can't unmount it... it says "only
root
> can unmount the cdrom.
> What am I doing wrong?
> Thanks...
>
> --
> John Aldrich
> COL Tech Support
>
> ==========================================
> Chattanooga Online Internet
> 267-8867
>
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