SCO UnixWare 7/OpenUNIX 8/OpenServer 6 FAQ: What might a guru type when mounting a disc?

SCO UnixWare 7/OpenUNIX 8/OpenServer 6 FAQ :

Media/Device Information, Filesystems, and Disks :
What might a guru type when mounting a disc?

One can use the '-o < option_args >' argument to the mount command to do useful things like disallowing SUID, setting r-xr--r--, and converting caps to lower-case, as in:

      mount -r -F cdfs -o nosuid,dperm=544,nameconv=l /dev/cdrom/cdrom1 /mnt

One could make a shell alias or function that command in their .profile so as to make it easily available to ksh, or bash, as in:

      alias mcd1=" ... "

   where the '...' should be replace by the whole command seven lines above.

  or

  mcd1() { mount -r -F cdfs /dev/cdrom/cdrom1 /mnt && echo "Cd mounted.\n" ;}

From the mount(1M) page,

     'The CDROM media may or may not have values set for items such as 
      the User ID (UID), Group ID (GID), permissions, etc. If a value 
      is not recorded on the CDROM, a default value is assigned by the 
      software. The default value is either taken from the 
      /etc/conf/pack.d/cdfs/space.c file, or from the value specified 
      with the -o option of the mount command.'

'mkisofs,' part of the cdrecord tools on Skunkware or OLSS CD, properly writes the permissions when creating the ISO image.

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