From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 8 10:36:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA17641 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 10:36:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [207.141.254.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA17634 for ; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 10:36:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (mail.futuresouth.com [207.141.254.21]) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA15052; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 12:35:59 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 12:35:59 -0600 (CST) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Rich Winkel cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Permissions problem mounting floppy In-Reply-To: <199711081636.KAA27432@chumbly.math.missouri.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 8 Nov 1997, Rich Winkel wrote: > I'm running 2.2.5-STABLE. > I can only mount floppies as root. As a regular user, I get: > katy> mount_msdos /dev/fd0 /fd > mount_msdos: /dev/fd0: Permission denied Umm... AFAIK, that's correct. You SHOULD only be able to mount floppies as root. Here's a look at my /dev: {~} mortis:{107} %ll /dev/ | grep fd0 brw-r----- 9 root operator 2, 0 Dec 31 03:19 fd0 brw-r----- 1 root operator 2, 4 Dec 31 03:19 fd0.1200 brw-r----- 1 root operator 2, 3 Dec 31 03:19 fd0.1440 brw-r----- 1 root operator 2, 2 Dec 31 03:19 fd0.1480 brw-r----- 1 root operator 2, 1 Dec 31 03:19 fd0.1720 Device files should NEVER be write for world. If you really need users other than root and yourself (su) to be able to mount floppies, I'd recommend installing sudo from the ports collect, and allowing groups of people to sudo mount ..... > > Rich > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*