On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:53:17 +0700 Patrick Shirkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Joern Nettingsmeier wrote: > > Patrick Shirkey wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I can't find anything online that gives me a way to run /sbin/mkdosfs as > >> a normal user. > >> > >> Is it just that I need to add the user to the mkdosfs group or something > >> similar? > >> > > > > are you sure the program itself prevents that? my guess is it's the > > device you want to create the file on. > > > > should be a matter of creating a new group disk_removable or something, > > writing an udev rule to give it r/w access to all floppies and usb > > sticks and add yourself to that group. > > > > > Thanks for the tip. > > I'm working on it now. > > However this seems like a major oversight from a Linux on the desktop > perspective that you need to be root user to format a removable disk. It > would make sense that Nautilus or Konqueror would have built in support > by now. > > Does anyone have experience with any distros/apps allowing this as > normal user? > > It seems like it should be a no brainer. > I think Joern is correct in that all you need is read+write permissions on the device node. Under debian etch, the group is set to "floppy" for device nodes of removable usb storage devices. I imagine other distros do something similar. So the user should just have to be a member of the floppy (or equivalent) group to run mkdosfs on the device. -- David M. Creswick _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
