doesn't quite solve Tom's problem. see below.
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Tom Allison wrote: > > >I'm running into a rights issue with mounting floppies as a non-root user. > > > >bash-2.05a$ ls -l /dev/fd0 && ls -l / | grep floppy && grep fd0 /etc/fstab > >brwxrwx--- 1 root floppy 2, 0 Jul 23 21:46 /dev/fd0 > >drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 30 2000 floppy > >/dev/fd0 /floppy auto user 0 0 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > >I am a member of group floppy. > > With the rights shown as above, you have direct access rights to the floppy > device and you could use mtools (mcopy, mdir, etc.) to access the floppy. > However, mount does not care this, because in that case the reader will > always be kernel filesystem driver, which always has rights to any device. > > What mount cares about, is if you have permission to _mount_ the floppy. > Mount permissions are described in /etc/fstab, so this is the file you so that's exactly what he did in his fstab and what you suggested below. Still if it doesn't work, what's wrong? > particular case, /etc/fstab should include line like > > /dev/fd0 /floppy auto noauto,user 0 0 > had the same problem, would be interested to know, but can't re-make my problem now. Thanks, tobias. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
