Not privileged to mount CDs

Paul Dickson paul at permanentmail.com
Mon Feb 27 15:22:42 UTC 2006


On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 08:58:48 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:

> On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 14:52 -0700, Paul Dickson wrote:
> > On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:37:14 -0800, Thomas Taylor wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sunday 26 February 2006 04:59, Paul Dickson wrote:
> > > > When I place a non-blank CD in my CDROM drive, I get the message "You are
> > > > not privileged to mount the volume '<volume-name>'."
> > > >
> > > > What do I need to do to be privileged?
> > > >
> > > > This might be new as google doesn't find anything immediately relevant.
> > > >
> > > > 	-Paul
> > > 
> > > Check "man fstab" for enteries in the fourth field.  "user" should work for 
> > > this.
> > 
> > /dev/scd0  /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed,user 0 0
> > 
> > Thanks for the idea, but it doesn't help.
> 
> Try removing that line and it should actually work though it seems a bit
> backwards.. let us know..
> 
> (yes, gnome-mount uses hal to mount and (as a security measure) hal will
> refuse to mount if there is already an entry in the /etc/fstab file -
> regardless of whether they contain pamconsole and/or user. Looks like we
> should clean up after fstab-sync - some care to file a bug?).

Thanks.  Commenting out the fstab entry resolves the problem.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=183214

	-Paul




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