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by **Chri** » Thu, 14 May 1998 04:00:00

Hello, it's Chris again, I know I had asked some advice on this before, but
bear with this nuebie. I have my system set up is some way that I need to be
root or su to change a CD or Floppy. I had seen a way to have any user be
able to change disks; however, I can't get it to do that. I have "Slackware
96" (kernel 2.0).

EJECT is NOT RECOGNIZED as a command; so don't even suggest that.

What version of Linux uses eject?

Thanks in advance of a solution,
Chris

by **Brion Vibbe** » Thu, 14 May 1998 04:00:00

> Hello, it's Chris again, I know I had asked some advice on this before, but
> bear with this nuebie. I have my system set up is some way that I need to be
> root or su to change a CD or Floppy. I had seen a way to have any user be
> able to change disks; however, I can't get it to do that. I have "Slackware
> 96" (kernel 2.0).

Edit /etc/fstab. For the mount points you want to be able to mount and
unmount as a user (ie floppy and cdrom), add 'user' to the options. For
instance:

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2
noauto,user 0 0

Now any user should be able to mount or unmount the floppy.

Quote:> EJECT is NOT RECOGNIZED as a command; so don't even suggest that.

> What version of Linux uses eject?

Eject doesn't have anything to do with mounting or unmounting, it just
ejects the media (although it can be told to try unmounting first, you
need the appropriate priveledges first). My Red Hat 5 system has eject,
but my Slackware 3.4 system does not. Of course it's not that big a deal
anyway as long as you've got a button to push for ejecting the disc!

by **Chri** » Fri, 15 May 1998 04:00:00

>> Hello, it's Chris again, I know I had asked some advice on this before, but
>> bear with this nuebie. I have my system set up is some way that I need to be
>> root or su to change a CD or Floppy. I had seen a way to have any user be
>> able to change disks; however, I can't get it to do that. I have "Slackware
>> 96" (kernel 2.0).

>Edit /etc/fstab. For the mount points you want to be able to mount and
>unmount as a user (ie floppy and cdrom), add 'user' to the options. For
>instance:

> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2
>noauto,user 0 0

>Now any user should be able to mount or unmount the floppy.

I have several disks with text, *.wpd, (ForTran) and other files for
Microsoft operating systems. If I wanted to view a document, would the MSDOS
floppy be recognized?

Thanks, Brian
Chris

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