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Date:      Thu, 6 May 1999 13:17:34 -0700 ()
From:      Rick Hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com>
To:        Kevin Weiss <kevin.weiss@mail.utexas.edu>
Cc:        David Abdemoulaie <DAcash18@vt.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Trouble writing to a mounted DOS floppy (as a user)
Message-ID:  <Pine.WNT.3.95.990506131641.-70647D-100000@akane>
In-Reply-To: <19990506194828.AB9661503E@hub.freebsd.org>

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> NOTE: the above fstab should be:
> /dev/fd0        /mnt/floppy     msdos   rw,NOAUTO         0       0	sorry 'bout that
> 
> Anyway, that's the one I'm still trying to figure out.  Supposedly you can add "user" to your
> fstab entry (right by "noauto").
> 
> I even changed permissons on /dev/fd0 to 666. Nope, I still had to be root.

	I think there is a group called 'operator' which will allow users
to do stuff like that. Simply add that group to your user(s) you wish to
have access to it.

					Rick



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