"David E. Fox" wrote:
>
> Adding yourself to the floppy group is a workaround. I don't see why
> you can't access the device at that point. You shouldn't have to 'newgrp
> floppy' because 'floppy' already exists. You might have to relogin again.
You're right. It wasn't just a case of opening up a new terminal.
Once I'd logged out of KDE and logged back in again it all started
working. I can now use the KFloppy icon as it was intended and I
haven't compromised the security of my system. So as workarounds
go it's not a bad one.
The only other way to make KFloppy useful would be to make it pop
up a dialogue box asking for the root password, like DrakConf.
Then again, that's really overkill as you really don't need to
have full root permissions in order to format a floppy disk.
I too resent the DOSification of UNIX which is why I'm pleased
with my workaround. The part I was missing was the need to log
out and back in again for it to take effect. I've added myself
to the cdwriter group too for the same reason. I found it rather
perplexing that I couldn't use /usr/bin/mkisofs otherwise even
though and it doesn't access hardware. The ownership
(root.cdwriter) and permissions (-rwxr-s---) puzzle me. Why is
the set-GID bit set?
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John Morley ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
