Is your floppy device set in fstab for users?
my line in /etc/fstab reads:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppya auto noauto,user,owner,rw 0 0
jeff smith
"Kevin M. Gleason" wrote:
>
> I did what you suggested but still (after rebooting) when I try to:
> mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> I get the message
> mount: only root can do that
> which makes me wonder if the mount command doesn't have permissions set to
> 700 - would that be it? When I try to mount the drive from the desktop icon
> with a native ext2 disk it mounts (even when I'm not guest) but when I try
> to do a mount at the terminal--I get that message.
> Kevin
> ps. I really need to be able to do this command from a shell prompt
>
> Derek Martin wrote:
>
> > "Kevin M. Gleason" wrote:
> >
> > > I need to do some work as a non-root user and I can't access floppy no
> > > matter what I do.
> > >
> > > Kevin
> >
> > as root:
> >
> > chmod 666 /dev/fd0
> > chown nobody /dev/fd0
> >
> > Note that this has security implications...
> >
> > --
> > PGP/GPG Public key at http://cerberus.ne.mediaone.net/~derek/pubkey.txt
> >
> > Derek D. Martin | Senior UNIX Systems/Network Administrator
> > Arris Interactive | A Nortel Company
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