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Re: Viewing



On Feb 25, 11:51pm, Steve Poling wrote:
> Subject: Re: Viewing
> what's the *right* way to mount a CD if you are NOT root?
>
> i'm starting to think paranoid thoughts that maybe i ought to use the root
> account on only the rarest of sysconfig occasions.
>

Your right,  don't use the root account unless you really have to.  I speak
from experience.  Add the "user" flag in the appropriate line of /etc/fstab and
users will be abot to mount/unmount that device/filesystem under their own uid.