Thanks... worked well... Is there a better way that to have each user 
owning their own mount point?
Johnny Billquist wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, James Gray wrote:
>
>> Hello, I am trying to allow not root users to access CD-ROM and 
>> Floppy drives.
>> The relevant sections of my fstab are shown below:
>>
>> /dev/cd0a    /cdrom   cd9660    ro,noauto    0    0
>> /dev/fd0a    /floppy    msdos      rw,noauto   0    0
>>
>> the relevant folders and devices are shown below:
>>
>> brw-rw-rw-   1   root   operator   6,   0 Sep   3 21:04 /dev/cd0a
>> brw-rw-rw-   1   root   operator   2,   0 Sep   3 21:04 /dev/fd0a
>>
>> drwxr-xr-x    2   James  users   512 Sep   3 21:18 cdrom
>> drwxr-xr-x    2   James  users   512 Sep   3 21:17 floppy
>>
>> "mount /floppy" and "mount /cdrom" works fine as root, but not when 
>> I'm logged in as "James". could someone tell me where I'm going wrong?
>
>
> Normal users are normally not allowed to do mounts, no matter what.
> You can change that with sysctl, setting vfs.generic.usermount=1
>
>     Johnny
>
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