On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:46:01 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vikki Roemer) wrote: > Hi! > Lately (for the last few weeks) I've been unable to mount the floppy > drive or su using one of my accounts. Mostly it's just annoying > because the account that's having problems is the one I use for > programming and for playing with possibly dangerous stuff-- my default > account is fine. But, when I do need to get at the floppy when I'm > programming, I have to log in as root on another terminal and transfer > files between the floppy and the home dir that way, and then go back > over to the terminal where I'm logged in to program; needless to say, > this is a Bad Thing. > > But I've looked through everything I can find and I can't find any > explanation for it. Both accounts are members of the 'floppy' group, > so according to what I've read there's no reason why I should be > refused access to the floppy drive. The error message I get when I > try to mount a floppy is: > mount: Must be superuser to mount.
Is /floppy set to "defaults" in /etc/fstab ? If so you may need to add a comma and "user" to allow regular users to mount it. ie. /dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0 > > As for not being allowed to su to root, that's odd, too. What > happens is, I'll type in su, it'll prompt me for a password, I'll type > it in (correctly), and then it'll tell me "su: Authentication failure > Sorry." I can't figure out what the problem is there, either. I had a problem like that a long time ago; the issue was an improperly upgraded package; sorry I can't remember more. Do you have any pending/not upgraded packages? > > Up until a few weeks ago, I didn't have any trouble mounting the > floppy or su'ing. Does anybody have any idea what the problem might > be? > > TIA. > > -- > Vikki Roemer > Registered Linux user #2880021 http://counter.li.org/ > "Quod scripsi, scripsi." [Latin, "What I have written, I have written."] > Homepage: http://compgrokker.tripod.com/ > > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > Version: 3.12 > GAT d-(?) s: a--- C++++(++) UL++++ P+>++++ L+++>++++ E>++ W++ N+ o? > K- w--() O? M? V?(-) PS+(+++) PE++(+++) Y+ PGP++ t+@ 5 X-() > R*(?) tv-- b+++(++) DI+ D--(?) G e-(*)>+++++ h! r-- x? > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
