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jason denton wrote:
> 
> I'm running Suse 6.3 and I have several devices marked as user mount in fstab;
> my floppy drive, zip drive, and cdrom. However, whenever I try to mount these
> devices as anything other than root I get a message saying that only root may
> use mount. All the docs seem to suggest that this is not the case, and that
> I should be able to mount those things appropriate marked in fstab. How can
> I fix this so that I can mount floppy/zip/cdroms without being root?
> 
> Jason Denton

well, you can do it the sloppy way and set the suid bit on /bin/mount
(aka chmod +s) or you can go the elegant way and use autofs, a kernel
module that you use with automount package.  

as far as config files, here's my /etc/auto.master:

#mountpoint map	options
/misc   /etc/auto.misc  --timeout 3

and here's my /etc/auto.misc
cdrom           -fstype=iso9660,ro      :/dev/cdrom
cdrom-efs       -fstype=efs,ro          :/dev/cdrom

you probably won't need the efs one tho - i use that to automount my
IRIX cds.

with this setup i mount my iso cds by just accessing anything under
/misc/cdrom.

you can add a floppy to the config by just adding this to auto.misc:

floppy	-fstype=auto	:/dev/fd0

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