This is the way I look at mounting/unmounting devices: your CD-ROM and floppy drive is in the console, so it won't do you any good mounting or unmounting if you are a remote user. If you get to sit in front of the console, then who cares who you are? It might be really, 'stupid' (for the lack of a better word) if you have to get root to come and mount/unmount your CD or floppy every time you work on the console and do not have root (or su or sudo) access... --David At 12:01 AM 10/5/2002 +1000, you wrote: >Hi: > >mnt/cdrom isn't a device name, it's a mountpoint. I guess it's defined in >/etc/fstab as I described in my message. > >As for not needing to be root to mount filesystems ... hmmm. interesting. >Not how I'd run a system, but hey. It's your system. My understanding was >that this was a requirement. Guess it's not, as unsafe as it might be. > >Geoff. > > >-- >Geoff Shang <gshang at uq.net.au> >ICQ number 43634701 > >Make sure your E-mail can be read by everyone! >http://www.betips.net/etc/evilmail.html > >Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. >See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
