Hello Nick, My friend will be physically at my computer when he does this. It is just that I want him to have a little fun with linux himself when he comes over to my place to scan some images and go on the net. I will not have him ssh in. I will give him an account on my computer. He is not even on the net, so he can not ssh in. He will physically be putting his floppy in my floppy drive and I will be present the whole time he is having fun with his account on my computer.
Regards, Michael Walters _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ On May 4, 2004 05:00 pm, Nick W wrote: > On May 5, 2004 03:23 am, Michael Walters wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > I wanted to mount msdos filesystems on floppies as a user because I want > > to give a friend of mine an account on my computer and enable him to > > mount and umount file systems on his floppy when it is inserted in my > > floppy drive. > > If youre talking ssh... > > Really this has little/nothing to do with fstab, but rather who has > permission to execute the mount and unmount commands. Unfortunately if you > give him/her that permission they will be able to mount or unmount any of > your drives. ------ > or, if you mean you want him/her to be able to mount your drive to a > directory on another machine you need to look into nfs [network > filesystem]. > > > At the present time I can only mount file systems on a floppy in my drive > > as root, and want to be able to do it as a user. > > > > So I did a man fstab and learned how to look at my fstab file. > > > > I did a cd to /etc and then did a cat fstab to find out what was in my > > /etc/ fstab file. > > > > I noticed that the line containing fd0 was as follows: > > > > /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat,auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0 where the last two > > 0's were under <dump> and <pass>. > > > > I then did a vi fstab and i and got the following warning in red: > > > > "w10: Warning: changing a read only file". > > > > Not wanting to break something or to cause havoc to my system I did an > > esc :q! and then sent you this message. > > > > Is it safe for me to edit the fstab file, and if so, how should I modify > > it so that I can mount msdos type files on a floppy inserted into my > > floppy drive? > > it is safe to modify it if you know how. Man fstab and man mount should > tell you what you need to know. > > > I want to give a friend of mine an account on my computer and give him > > the capability to mount and umount msdos file systems on his floppy when > > he inserts it in my floppy drive. > > The fact that the auto option is set in your fstab for fd0 means the floppy > will [read should] be auto-mounted when your friend tries to access it. > > hopefully that helps a little... > > Nick > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
