From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 16 18:56:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA05115 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 18:56:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA05110 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 18:56:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt2-211.HiWAAY.net [208.147.148.211]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.7/8.8.6) with ESMTP id UAA09270; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 20:56:48 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id UAA00721; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 20:56:47 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199711170256.UAA00721@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: rich@chumbly.math.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel) cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Can anyone mount floppies as non-root? In-reply-to: Message from rich@chumbly.math.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel) of "Sun, 16 Nov 1997 18:31:04 CST." <199711170031.SAA11698@chumbly.math.missouri.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 20:56:46 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I'm running 2.2.5-stable. > I'm still having problems doing this, although all the /dev and msdos_mount > permissions seem ok. Can anyone mount floppies as a regular user? Do they really need to mount floppies or do they simply need to be able to read, write, and format floppies? If mounting isn't really needed look at mtools is the ports/packages. All you'll have to do is set proper permissions on the floppy devices for the proper users to be able to use mtools. And you'll never have problems with a user removing a mounted floppy. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.