On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 14:00 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > I wish giving a command were the case. In fact when I try to mount > using a konsole interface with a user different than root I get : > > mount /dev/sr0 /media/cd > mount: only root can do that > > If I watch what happens on a different fedora installation the mounting > directory is created and the lock files are created in the /media > directory. On this new install of F11 neither of those occur. > > Since I can mount with the root account but am unable to mount with any > other user account do you think looking at mount's security is where I > should look. I turned off selinux and rebooted for grins, but that did > not make a difference either. > > hal is recognizing the new CD for sure, but it just is not mounting it > when it is recognized. > > Thank you again for your help if you have any other thoughts ...... ---- Only root can issue the mount command - nothing has changed that. You're wasting your time trying to do that as any other user. Now that I know you are using KDE... Right click the task bar, Add widgets and add 'Device Notifier' widget if you don't have it already. That is what you use to 'mount' a CD Craig Craig, Sorry, if I mislead you, I have setup gnome on this machine. I created some perl scripts that mount and unmount the cd so It works with some user control, but not automatically like it should. Greg -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines