Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:46:48 -0500 From: Jay Sachs <sachs@cs.williams.edu> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: mount zip disk not as root? Message-ID: <rz8k91jujlj.fsf@hamburger.cs.williams.edu>
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I'm running a FreeBSD box (2.2, supped to stable) on an otherwise-Sun/Solaris network. NIS is running. This machine has an IDE cdrom & zip drive. An ls -l of /dev/ shows all wfd0* and rfd0* to be in group operator. This is also true of /dev/wcd0*. I've verified that the permissions on /dev/wfd0* and /dev/rwfd0* to be 660, and they're all in group operator. In /etc/group, "sachs" is listed as being in group operator, which is group ID 5; however, NIS reports group 5 to be uucp. I can mount the cdrom fine without su-ing. When I try to mount the zip drive, though, I get: hamburger% mount /dev/wfd0s4 ~/mnt /dev/wfd0s4 on /home/cs-faculty/sachs/mnt: Operation not permitted As root, I can mount and use the zip disks without problems. Why am I able to manipulate the cdrom but not the zip drive? What must I do (other than su) in order to be able to mount zip disks? -Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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