Re: [K12OSN] Access to local CD ROM

Jim Wildman (jim@rossberry.com)
Wed, 1 May 2002 09:58:30 -0400 (EDT)


Instead of messing with fstab, can you use sudo to allow each 
person to mount their own drive through an alias?  

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Jim Wildman, CISSP                                      jim@rossberry.com
614-404-1897                                     http://www.rossberry.com

On 1 May 2002, Shahms E. King wrote:

> and then we come to the ugly, but workable hack:
> you have to create /etc/fstab entries for the mount points or the users
> won't be able to mount them... my initial thought was to create the
> mount points under /mnt//cdrom, etc. and have a symlink from there
> to $HOME/cdrom BUT mount doesn't dereference links, so that doesn't
> work) which means you have to modify /etc/fstab through a script of some
> kind, which is kind of ugly and potentially error prone, so solution:
> 



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