Re: problem with mount applet

[Tom Gilbert <gilbertt tomgilbert freeserve co uk>]

On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Georges-Henry PORTEFAIT wrote:

>Greetings to all,
>
>when I try to mount the CDROM using the applet, I have a dialog saying :
>
>drivemount command failed " mount /mnt/cdrom 2>&1" reported:
>mount: must be superuser to use mount .
>
>I know that mount is a root command but what is the use of this applet
>if we cannot use it to mount discs !?!
>
>Any help/clue/tip will be greatly appreciated

Try doing (note back-ticks not quotes)
$ ll `which mount`
it should report :

$ ll `which mount`
-rwsr-xr-x   1 root     root        52788 Apr 17 16:54 /bin/mount
   ^
   |
  / 
This means the mount program is setuid root. If your copy is not,
you will need to do a chmod u+s `which mount` while logged in as root.

This should fix it. If you still have problems, you could check the
permissions of your cdrom device in /dev, but I don't think this is the
problem.

Tom.

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