Re: [expert] Wierd unmount only permitted as root

2002-12-17 Thread J. Grant
Hi, Thanks for the reply. after making it suid root it still said you need to be root to unmount perhaps there is something else stopping it working that we don't know. Strange how it works in redhat. Regards JG Dave Sherman wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 21:35, J. Grant wrote: Hi Dave, I

Re: [expert] Wierd unmount only permitted as root

2002-12-17 Thread Dave Sherman
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 07:44, J. Grant wrote: Hi, Thanks for the reply. after making it suid root it still said you need to be root to unmount perhaps there is something else stopping it working that we don't know. Strange how it works in redhat. How about you post the line in your

Re: [expert] Wierd unmount only permitted as root

2002-12-17 Thread J. Grant
This is from my desktop, i disabled supermount /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom2 iso9660 user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0 0 0 from my other machine with supermount none /mnt/cdrom supermount

Re: [expert] Wierd unmount only permitted as root

2002-12-16 Thread J. Grant
Hi Dave, I am surprised that works, here chmod +s only gives user and group +s so my normal user can still not run it. Any other ideas? I could use a script, but there must be something more elegant Regards JG Dave Sherman wrote: On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 12:07, J. Grant wrote: Hi, I'm seeing

Re: [expert] Wierd unmount only permitted as root

2002-12-16 Thread Dave Sherman
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 21:35, J. Grant wrote: Hi Dave, I am surprised that works, here chmod +s only gives user and group +s so my normal user can still not run it. Any other ideas? I could use a script, but there must be something more elegant Regards JG Here are the relevant

[expert] Wierd unmount only permitted as root

2002-12-15 Thread J. Grant
Hi, I'm seeing some strange effects, this has been going on for a while, but i've not got around to asking if there is a solution, basically, even though I have user in my fstab I can only unmount my cdrom as root. Any ideas or solutions? Regards JG $ umount /mnt/cdrom umount: only root

Re: [expert] Wierd unmount only permitted as root

2002-12-15 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 12:07, J. Grant wrote: Hi, I'm seeing some strange effects, this has been going on for a while, but i've not got around to asking if there is a solution, basically, even though I have user in my fstab I can only unmount my cdrom as root. Any ideas or solutions? I