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Re: [SLE] mount KDE floppy and cd rom
  • From: bshelton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Brad Shelton)
  • Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 14:18:24 -0400
  • Message-id: <19991006141824.B7782@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 07:50:14AM +0200, Lenz Grimmer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Purple Shirt wrote:
>
> > Now the floppy and CD only mount as root. When a normal user tries to it
> > says: need to be superuser.
> >
> > How do I fix this?
>
> You need to add "user" to your mount options in /etc/fstab.
>
> > For your further education:
> > http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/news/msnw/LinuxMyths.asp
>
> Yeah, a nice FUD piece. I just know, that the Linux community will totally
> freak out about this one.

Uh... I don't think that will fix it. I have that in my fstab file and still
had to SUID mount for it to work.


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