[Novalug] Ubuntu system continues to mount cddrives as root

[Ben Creitz]

On 9/23/07, Bonnie Dalzell <bdalzell at qis.net> wrote:
> I just installed Ubuntu Feisty
>
> I have spent a lot of time today looking up articles on the web about
> fstab and ubuntu feisty. I am really frustrated about this.
>
> here are the lines in my fstab
>
> /dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   auto    ro,auto,users,exec     0       0
> /dev/hdd        /media/cdrom1   auto    ro,auto,users,exec     0       0
>
> according to the articles this should be mounting my cdrom drives as user
> (me bdz) but they are still coming up as belonging to root which means I
> cannot open any folders on them or read any of the files on them.
>
> In addition my alien amiga drives are also coming up as root
>
> here is a sample line in fstab
>
> /dev/hdb1     /home/bdz/Desktop/Amiga/amiga1  affs   rw,users,auto 0 0
>
> my fat partition also comes up as owned by root but at least it has
> permissions
>
> -rwxrwx---
>
> and i used the group manager to make root a member of my group bdz so I
> seem to be able to access files in the fat partition. this is really
> frustrating me.
>
> it is as if there is something besides fstab that is determining the
> permissions.

In Ubuntu, I think your user Id needs to be a member of a bunch of
groups for things to work.  At the shell, type the command 'id'.  My
output looks like this:

uid=1000(bcreitz) gid=1000(bcreitz)
groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),44(video),46(plugdev),109(lpadmin),111(scanner),113(admin),1000(bcreitz)

Ben