Tobias Ulbricht wrote: > 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. > > >
I got it!!! I was being over-complicated about the whole thing: I was trying to do: mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy when all I should be doing is: mount /floppy the entries in fstab default /floppy to /dev/fd0 (no need to specify), autodetect file system time ( no need for -t vfat) and user lets me (not root) do it. By specifying all this extra stuff -- I ended up violating the user trust and that's where I got my message. A super simple solution to an aggrevating problem. One that I am not likely to forget soon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
