Re: Mount CD/DVD and playback DVD as normal user

2013-11-17 Thread Laurence Rochfort
Hi Fred, You were right about adding /cdrom to fbtab. I had added /dev/cd0a, so it didn't work. I'm in the operators group, so a combination of the two means I can now mount cd/dvd and watch dvds in Xine. Thanks everyone for you assistance. Regards, Laurence. On 12 November 2013 23:47, Fred

Re: Mount CD/DVD and playback DVD as normal user

2013-11-13 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Laurence Rochfort laurence.rochf...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Fred, /cdrom is the mount point, so no I don't think it should be a symlink. The command is: $ mount /dev/cd0a /cdrom mount_cd9660: /dev/cd0a on /cdrom: Operation not permitted You're pretty

Re: Mount CD/DVD and playback DVD as normal user

2013-11-13 Thread Jay Patel
This might help too http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=articlesid=20131113030229mode=expanded On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Tomas Bodzar tomas.bod...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Laurence Rochfort laurence.rochf...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Fred, /cdrom is the mount

Re: Mount CD/DVD and playback DVD as normal user

2013-11-13 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Laurence Rochfort laurence.rochf...@gmail.com wrote: What are the consequences of putting myself in the operator group? Members of group operator may * run shutdown(8), * read disk devices--intended for backups with dump(8), but of course it means that members can bypass any

Re: Mount CD/DVD and playback DVD as normal user

2013-11-13 Thread Stefan Wollny
Am Mon, 11 Nov 2013 22:08:20 + schrieb Laurence Rochfort laurence.rochf...@gmail.com: Hello, I'm trying to configure my laptop so that a normal user may mount a CD/DVD or playback a DVD in Xine. So far I've just put an entry in /etc/fbtab. /cdrom permissions look OK, but the devices

Re: Mount CD/DVD and playback DVD as normal user

2013-11-12 Thread Mark Prins
2013/11/11 Laurence Rochfort laurence.rochf...@gmail.com: Hello, I'm trying to configure my laptop so that a normal user may mount a CD/DVD or playback a DVD in Xine. I never used it but have you seen: http://www.bsdua.org/hotplug-diskmount.html ? mark So far I've just put an entry

Re: Mount CD/DVD and playback DVD as normal user

2013-11-12 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Laurence Rochfort laurence.rochf...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm trying to configure my laptop so that a normal user may mount a CD/DVD or playback a DVD in Xine. So far I've just put an entry in /etc/fbtab. /cdrom permissions look OK, but the devices

Re: Mount CD/DVD and playback DVD as normal user

2013-11-12 Thread Laurence Rochfort
:13 /dev/cd1c On 12 November 2013 12:48, Tomas Bodzar tomas.bod...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Laurence Rochfort laurence.rochf...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm trying to configure my laptop so that a normal user may mount a CD/DVD or playback a DVD in Xine. So far

Re: Mount CD/DVD and playback DVD as normal user

2013-11-12 Thread Fred
On 11/12/13 18:56, Laurence Rochfort wrote: Thanks Tomas, I have set kern.usermount=1 now and added myself to the operator group, but still get operation denied when trying to mount a cdrom. Does the below look right? Thank you $ sysctl kern.usermount kern.usermount=1 $ groups laurence

Re: Mount CD/DVD and playback DVD as normal user

2013-11-12 Thread Laurence Rochfort
Thanks Fred, /cdrom is the mount point, so no I don't think it should be a symlink. The command is: $ mount /dev/cd0a /cdrom mount_cd9660: /dev/cd0a on /cdrom: Operation not permitted On 12 November 2013 20:27, Fred open...@crowsons.com wrote: On 11/12/13 18:56, Laurence Rochfort wrote:

Re: Mount CD/DVD and playback DVD as normal user

2013-11-12 Thread Fred
On 11/12/13 20:48, Laurence Rochfort wrote: Thanks Fred, /cdrom is the mount point, so no I don't think it should be a symlink. The command is: $ mount /dev/cd0a /cdrom mount_cd9660: /dev/cd0a on /cdrom: Operation not permitted Hi Laurence, You are right it should just be a node so not a

Re: Mount CD/DVD and playback DVD as normal user

2013-11-12 Thread Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas
Fred open...@crowsons.com writes: On 11/12/13 20:48, Laurence Rochfort wrote: Thanks Fred, /cdrom is the mount point, so no I don't think it should be a symlink. The command is: $ mount /dev/cd0a /cdrom mount_cd9660: /dev/cd0a on /cdrom: Operation not permitted Hi Laurence, You are

Re: Mount CD/DVD and playback DVD as normal user

2013-11-12 Thread Brynet
There are many reasons for wanting to mount a CD/DVD, perhaps to restore a backup or to access files from someone who only just recently made the transition from floppy. But for the two most common reasons today.. * Music/Audio discs, containing no filesystem and cannot be mounted. cdio(1) in

Mount CD/DVD and playback DVD as normal user

2013-11-11 Thread Laurence Rochfort
Hello, I'm trying to configure my laptop so that a normal user may mount a CD/DVD or playback a DVD in Xine. So far I've just put an entry in /etc/fbtab. /cdrom permissions look OK, but the devices themselves less so. What are the consequences of putting myself in the operator group? Where can