accessing my CD, et. al

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Author: Wayne Conrad
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Subject: accessing my CD, et. al
On Sat, 28 July 2001, mazdaracer wrote:
> (re)loaded mandrake 8 on my laptop. Set the security to Paranoid. I'd
> like to be able to access the CD and the windows (dual boot) drives from
> my regular login. I thought adding my UID to the cdrom floppy entries in
> /etc/group would do it, but nay. Do I need to change the fstab or ?


Did you try adding the "user" flag to that device's line in fstab? Here's what the /drom entry looks like in my fstab (I don't do any kind of automounting, though):

/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0