[lug] mounting cdrom
Hugh Brown
hugh at math.byu.edu
Fri Nov 24 18:30:48 MST 2000
That did the trick (putting exec after user). Thank you for tracking
that down. I had looked at the man page but wasn't as thorough as I
should have been.
Thank you much kind sir.
Hugh
> I found in the mount man page something on option "user":
> user Allow an ordinary user to mount the file system. This option
> implies the options
> noexec, nosuid, and nodev (unless overridden by subsequent
> options, as in the
> option line user,exec,dev,suid).
>
> This apparently says that your user option is taking precedence over the
> exec option, and turning it noexec. I haven't tried, but the wording
> suggests that if your exec follows user, rather than preceding it, this
> won't happen, and exec will work.
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