Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2831 mails)

["Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)" <hylton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Steve,

steve wrote:
> Here is my line from /etc/fstab
>
> /dev/hdd    /media/dvdrecorder   subfs    
> noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
>
> How can I make it so that users can access the dvd drive?
Just been reading the fine manual entries of man fstab and man mount 
pages and saw a possible glitch.

The 'noauto' option makes the device not be mounted at boot. At boot 
time only root can mount devices, yet later you are asking a non 
privileged user to mount the device.

Perhaps the user should have root persmissions to access the device?

Quoted from mount:
 (iii) Normally, only the superuser can mount file systems.   However, 
when fstab contains the user option on a line, then anybody can mount
the corresponding system.

       Thus, given a line
              /dev/cdrom  /cd  iso9660  ro,user,noauto,unhide
Any user can mount the iso9660 file system found on  his  CDROM.

Check the ORDER of the options ie user is before noauto.

To me this would make a difference as 'noauto' first would mean only 
root can mount the device however with 'user' first the user would be 
given preferential treatment over root?

Hope it helps

Hylton
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