[wplug] Audio CD autorun problem, RH 7.3

[Mike Griffin]

Instead of going through the trouble of adjusting ownership/permissions 
on a system-wide scale, why not just create a mount point directory in 
said users home directory and point the mount there?


On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 03:36 AM, Frank W. Holden Jr. wrote:

> Well, I had to do some more checking and found my fix was to give EACH 
> user a place to mount the different drives. In my case I have 
> /mnt/floppy , /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/zip100.0 owned by 
> <username>.users... Each user can have their own mount point. Within 
> the Gnome  GUI I have made icon links to the mount program and edited 
> the properties to reflect who, what, when, where for the mount on a 
> user basis. This will allow users to mount the drive to that 
> directory. I don't think it will have anything to do with the self 
> starting audio CD player, BUT if you don't have permissions to use 
> that program then it will not work. You may want to chmod to 764 or 
> 774 /usr/bin/gtcd...
>
> Was just a thought!
> Frank
>
> TC Linux wrote:
>> Frank W. Holden Jr. wrote:
>>> I just double checked to see if I can play commercial music CD's 
>>> with no changes to the /etc/fstab and I can. My file looks just like 
>>> your orginal listed here. My main group is wheel and I have edited 
>>> my sudoers with visudo to reflect that wheel group users can use 
>>> most any command either directly or with the sudo command. BUT, I am 
>>> listening to some Blues by Muddy Waters right now without any other 
>>> changes. I even tryed putting in a data CD and it auto-mounted and 
>>> executed nautilus flawlessly... The only things different could be 
>>> sudoers and my workgroup is wheel... Maybe worth a try!
>>>
>>> TC Linux wrote:
>>>
>>>>> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>> ok, I've done a bit of reading.....as far as 'wheel', I don't think I 
>> want to give make users part of wheel just to allow them to listen to 
>> cd's.....
>> I've edited the sudoer file through visudo a few times trying 
>> different cd lines and no luck....is the cdrom line going to be the 
>> same in each case of RH 7.3?
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Mike Griffin
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