On Wed, 7 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What is the One True Debian way to allow users access to special devices > > such as > > floppies, CD-ROM drives and modems (ie., ppp, efax and minicom)? > > > > But simply doing the following for user foo does not work (at least on my > > 2.1 system): > > > > # addgroup foo floppy > > # addgroup foo audio > > # addgroup foo dip > > That SHOULD work. The user must logout and back in. do a 'groups' as the > user to make sure they are in the group.
This works for the CD-ROM drive after doing "chgroup audio /dev/cdrom; chgroup audio /dev/hdc" as root (should I have done that?) but doing "mount /dev/fd0 /floppy" as a user still gets "mount: only root can do that": $ mount /dev/fd0 /floppy/ mount: only root can do that $ ls -l /dev/fd0 brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 0 May 27 1997 /dev/fd0 $ groups m dialout floppy audio dip
