From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 10 03:47:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76F7516A4DA for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:47:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bob@tania.servebbs.org) Received: from mail3.panix.com (mail3.panix.com [166.84.1.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAFFE43D46 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:47:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bob@tania.servebbs.org) Received: from mailspool3.panix.com (mailspool3.panix.com [166.84.1.78]) by mail3.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21AD713A879; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 23:47:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from tania.servebbs.org (pool-71-247-32-136.nycmny.east.verizon.net [71.247.32.136]) by mailspool3.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76586103C424; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 23:47:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Bob Richards Organization: TamaraB To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 23:46:46 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200608071755.57239.bob@tania.servebbs.org> <200608092304.22781.bob@tania.servebbs.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608092346.47577.bob@tania.servebbs.org> Subject: Re: Mount Point permissions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:47:09 -0000 On Wednesday 09 August 2006 23:23, you wrote: > > What about chowning the permissions on /dev/fd0 to be root:floppyusers, > I went so far as chown bob:bob /dev/fd0 But after newfs get's through with the new floppy, it's chowned to root. > add a group floppyusers to /etc/group and make bob a member of that group. > Chmod 664 /dev/fd0 Went down that road as well; created a group called "mounters", added bob to it.... no good! I even copied newfs to /home/bob/bin, put home/bob/bin first in the PATH, made that newfs setuid/setgid bob no effect :-( Root wants to own the newly created file system no matter who formatted or created it. > Unfortunately I don't have any machines with floppy drives to test with. I personally don't have a need for floppy drives either; but I am setting up a dozen W/S to replace WINDOWZ in an office environment, and people expect to be able to use their floppies (especially with the GUI tools in KDE 3.5). I am hoping to use freebsd instead of Linux; which has become hard to maintain in long-term use because of things like libraries changing so often. The lack of "Library-Hell" in freebsd is refreshing. I guess "floppy-hell" is better than Library-hell :-) Floppy support is pretty bad on freebsd! I made the mistake of ejecting a mounted floppy yesterday; total system lock-up! I mean it was power off/on time! Not good! Bob