On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:28:34 +0000
"rsch77" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> revealed these words to me:

> Hello all !
> My problem is I don't manage to mount my cdrom and floppy as a
> regular user, neither through the command line, nor through the KDE
> desktop icons. I've changed the permissions
> of /bin/mount, /mnt/cdrom, /mnt/floppy in order to give me
> execution/write permissions. Also I've checked fstab and it has the
> option "user". The message error I get is "you must be superuser to
> mount". Does it have anything to do with the groups I belong to/the
> security level ? I checked these items as well and I only belong to
> my own group and my security level is medium.
> If someone knows what is wrong, please help me.
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Rodrigo
> 
> 
> 
> 

check the inside of the fstab file, make sure that for the cdrom and floppy entries 
have the word 'user' in the options. if they are missing, (as root) add them and run 
mount -a to have the changes reflected immediately.

ciao!


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