Bob Richards wrote:
On Wednesday 09 August 2006 23:23, you wrote:
What about chowning the permissions on /dev/fd0 to be root:floppyusers,
I went so far as chown bob:bob /dev/fd0 But after newfs get's through with the
new floppy, it's chowned to root.
add a group floppyusers to /etc/group and make bob a member of that group.
Chmod 664 /dev/fd0
Went down that road as well; created a group called "mounters", added bob to
it.... no good! I even copied newfs to /home/bob/bin, put home/bob/bin first
in the PATH, made that newfs setuid/setgid bob no effect :-( Root wants to
own the newly created file system no matter who formatted or created it.
Unfortunately I don't have any machines with floppy drives to test with.
I personally don't have a need for floppy drives either; but I am setting up a
dozen W/S to replace WINDOWZ in an office environment, and people expect to
be able to use their floppies (especially with the GUI tools in KDE 3.5). I
am hoping to use freebsd instead of Linux; which has become hard to maintain
in long-term use because of things like libraries changing so often. The lack
of "Library-Hell" in freebsd is refreshing.
I guess "floppy-hell" is better than Library-hell :-) Floppy support is pretty
bad on freebsd! I made the mistake of ejecting a mounted floppy yesterday;
total system lock-up! I mean it was power off/on time! Not good!
Bob
One possible workaround is to use msdosfs instead of ufs. Seems to work
fine for my regular user account. But I agree that floppy support sucks.
Try accidentally mounting a write-protected floppy as rw. You get a
flood of errors that cannot be cleared without a reboot.
HTH,
Micah
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