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- From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: Preventing Optical Disc Ejection
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 17:45:05 GMT
- Organization: University of Houston
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- References: <1jq0lqINN15h@calvin.usc.edu>
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- In article <1jq0lqINN15h@calvin.usc.edu> alves@calvin.usc.edu (William
- Alves) writes:
- #I teach a class for which we have a single stand-alone NeXT running
- #OS 2.1. Security in the room with the NeXT is handled through a key
- #sign-out procedure. Otherwise the students are unsupervised. Because
- #of disk space limitations, I would like to have an optical disc mounted
- #at all times. But because of the size, portability, and (now) expense
- #of the optical discs, I am afraid that a student could easily walk out
- #with it. So:
- #
- #Is there any way to prevent disc ejection for users without root access?
- #Preferably, I would like to prevent it both from the Workspace menu as
- #well as the Terminal. If not, is there something that can be done to
- #physically prevent the disc from ejecting? Thanks for your help.
- #
- #Bill Alves
-
- Yes. Have unix mount the drive during the boot process. You can do this
- by placing the proper information about the disk in the file /etc/fstab.
- Please see an earlier article "Re: hard drive mounting" that I just
- posted. It should also apply to Optical disks.
-
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