From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta5.snfc21.pbi.net ([206.13.28.241]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17xytB-00016t-00 for ; Sat, 05 Oct 2002 20:03:17 -0400 Received: from panda.PacBell.NET ([64.167.148.245]) by mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with ESMTP id <0H3J00G5G9HE8J@mta5.snfc21.pbi.net> for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Sat, 05 Oct 2002 17:03:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 17:06:35 -0700 From: Bear in SFO Subject: Re: Speakup digest, Vol 1 #1889 - 9 msgs In-reply-to: X-Sender: bearsfo@postoffice.pacbell.net To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Message-id: <5.1.0.14.0.20021005170248.00adfa08@postoffice.pacbell.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <017601c26baf$137cf3c0$0100a8c0@stargate> Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: This is the way I look at mounting/unmounting devices: your CD-ROM and floppy drive is in the console, so it won't do you any good mounting or unmounting if you are a remote user. If you get to sit in front of the console, then who cares who you are? It might be really, 'stupid' (for the lack of a better word) if you have to get root to come and mount/unmount your CD or floppy every time you work on the console and do not have root (or su or sudo) access... --David At 12:01 AM 10/5/2002 +1000, you wrote: >Hi: > >mnt/cdrom isn't a device name, it's a mountpoint. I guess it's defined in >/etc/fstab as I described in my message. > >As for not needing to be root to mount filesystems ... hmmm. interesting. >Not how I'd run a system, but hey. It's your system. My understanding was >that this was a requirement. Guess it's not, as unsafe as it might be. > >Geoff. > > >-- >Geoff Shang >ICQ number 43634701 > >Make sure your E-mail can be read by everyone! >http://www.betips.net/etc/evilmail.html > >Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. >See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup