[Sussex] cdrom access to all users

[John Crowhurst]

On Mon, May 9, 2005 17:10, Brendan Whelan said:
> Ronan,
>
> Thanks for the response - using   "grep cdrom /etc/group" didn't return
> anything.
>
> I changed "user" to "users" in fstab and when a non-root user enters
> "eject
> /media/cdrom" they get
> "Unable to open '/dev/hda' "          Root can eject the CD.
>
> Any suggestions?

Has anyone suggested changing the permissions on the device /dev/hda,
perhaps to chmod 666 /dev/hda?

Add to the fstab:

/dev/hda  /media/cdrom  iso9660  noauto,user,exec,ro 0 0

So that all users can mount and umount the cdrom drive.

--
John