allowing users to mount cdrom again (thanks)

[Grant Speelman]

On Thursday 08 July 2004 14:34, you wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 00:41:59 +0200
>
> Grant Speelman <grantg at xsinet.co.za> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I read in the previous post about allowing users to mount cdrom
> > and wanted to try it for myself
> > I did the follow :
> >
> > added vfs.usermount=1 to /etc/sysctl.conf
> > changed the permissions on /dev/acd0 to include the user
> > restarted freebsd (It's amazing what a restart does for me
> > sometimes)
> >
> > but this happens:
> >
> > Grant > mount /mnt/cdrom1
> > cd9660: /dev/acd1: Operation not permitted
>
> I suspect that you may be trying to mount (as a user) to a
> mount point that the user (Grant) does not own.
>
> > I am working in Kde usings Kde's Konsole and have two cdroms on
> > FreeBSD 5.2.1
> > Please help
>
> The FAQ has an entry about this:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USE
>R-FLOPPYMOUNT
>
> Its easy to overlook that the ordinary users have to own the mount
> point to be used.  Follow the steps outlined there and see if that
> takes care of your problem.
>
> HTH,
>
> Randy

Thanks this helped with the problem.

Grant