> I stand by what I have said. On most machines there is no reason to
> limit access to floppies to root.
>
That's not what you said. You said to make the it world writable.
Your message has the tone of a cross-examination, so it doesn't
deserve an answer, but I will respond civilly anyway.
I restated my views in slightly different words the second time,
figuring that saying them a different way would help make them clear.
"Limit access to root" refers to the practice of setting up /dev/fd0
with mode 600 and owner root, which I have found (and changed) on
dozens of machines I have used. That limitation screwed me many
times. The hypothetical problem of someone else reading my floppy was
in most cases impossible because nobody else (except the person who
was letting me use his home machine) could possibly have logged in on
it.
