many thanks for the answers.

Marc


Jon Peatfield wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Gasser Marc wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> when I insert a disc in my cdrom on SL51 it is
>> mounted automatically with option noexec (autofs is not running, no 
>> entry
>> for /dev/cdrom in fstab).
>>
>> How can I change this behaviour, e.g. I'd like to have it
>> in exec mode.
>
> Here is part of a message I wrote (a long time ago when sl5 was new) 
> that was going to eventually get turned into something suitable for 
> putting in our user docs.  Hopefully it makes sense in this somewhat 
> raw form:
>
> ...
>
> starting with the device (CD in this case) not mounted:
>
> $ mount | grep hdc
>
> $ gnome-mount --no-ui -d /dev/hdc
> gnome-mount 0.5
> $ mount | grep hdc
> /dev/hdc on /media/K3b data project type iso9660 
> (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,uid=5272)
>
> so that is what hal will do by default, but it *can* be adjusted - on 
> the command-line at least:
>
> $ gnome-mount --no-ui --unmount -d /dev/hdc
> gnome-mount 0.5
>
> $ gnome-mount --no-ui --extra-mount-options exec -d /dev/hdc
> gnome-mount 0.5
>
> $ mount | grep hdc
> /dev/hdc on /media/K3b data project type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev)
>
> $ gnome-mount --no-ui --unmount -d /dev/hdc
> gnome-mount 0.5
>
> $ gnome-mount --no-ui --extra-mount-options exec,uid=5272 -d /dev/hdc
> gnome-mount 0.5
>
> $ mount | grep hdc
> /dev/hdc on /media/K3b data project type iso9660 
> (ro,nosuid,nodev,uid=5272)
>
> hal (and hence gnome-mount which is a fairly trivial wrapper round it) 
> will allow some options to be specifified to override it's defaults 
> but not things that it consideres 'bad' like 'suid'...
>
> $ gnome-mount --no-ui --unmount -d /dev/hdc
> gnome-mount 0.5
> $ gnome-mount --no-ui --extra-mount-options exec,suid,uid=5272 -d 
> /dev/hdc
> gnome-mount 0.5
> $ mount | grep hdc
> <nothing>
>
> Now you can also use the gnome-mount command to set gconf values for 
> specific volumes to have extra options, e.g.
>
> ...
> to set the gconf setting to have the expected uid I ran (as you):
>
>   gnome-mount -t -v -h 
> /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_FEAA9FBD26ED9B92 \
>      --write-settings --mount-options exec
>
> where the path ending volume_uuid_FEAA9FBD26ED9B92 is the HAL UDI 
> unique identifier for the volume so should match this one volume, and 
> after remounting the disk volume we see...
>
> I have a fairly simple python script which will show the hal UDI paths 
> for currently connected devices (and other status about removable 
> devices) if that is of any interest to anyone.
>
> I expect things to be very different in sl6 since devicekit replaces 
> parts of hal.
>
>  -- Jon
>