current-users: Re: floppy and cd-rom access and cd-rw drive

Subject: Re: floppy and cd-rom access and cd-rw drive
To: Fusie Zhang <fzhang@cs.nmsu.edu>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: current-users
Date: 02/09/1999 17:46:21

Fusie Zhang <fzhang@cs.nmsu.edu> writes:
> is there any more convenient way of accessing the cd-rom or floppy
> drive than mount and umount them every time a new media is put in
> these drives.  mount can only be executed by root.

Actually, mount can be executed by anyone, provided they own the
directory being mounted on.

Perry