Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:23:37 +0800 From: Jahilliya <jahilliya@gmail.com> To: "Bob Richards" <bob@tania.servebbs.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mount Point permissions Message-ID: <ba5e78ea0608092023m79fddedwbdc82db8f8896d07@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200608092304.22781.bob@tania.servebbs.org> References: <200608071755.57239.bob@tania.servebbs.org> <D7C86F3C-3E21-4CBA-9555-725848651F0B@lassitu.de> <200608092304.22781.bob@tania.servebbs.org>
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On 8/10/06, Bob Richards <bob@tania.servebbs.org> wrote: Yeah.... I noticed that. If I become root, and chown the mounted floppy to > bob:bob, then on all subsequent mounts of that particular media bob has > write > access; but ONLY after root intervention. > > What this means however, is that I can NOT set up a work-station where the > user has no root access, and expect that user to effectively use the > floppy > drive. What a pain! The user can format, mount, and read; but until the > media > is choned to her/him, by root, they can't write. I didn't have this > problem > with Linux. > > What about chowning the permissions on /dev/fd0 to be root:floppyusers, add a group floppyusers to /etc/group and make bob a member of that group. Chmod 664 /dev/fd0 See if that works. Unfortunately I don't have any machines with floppy drives to test with.
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