Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:50:08 -0700 From: Micah <micahjon@ywave.com> To: Bob Richards <bob@tania.servebbs.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mount Point permissions Message-ID: <44DABB00.3070304@ywave.com> In-Reply-To: <200608092346.47577.bob@tania.servebbs.org> References: <200608071755.57239.bob@tania.servebbs.org> <200608092304.22781.bob@tania.servebbs.org> <ba5e78ea0608092023m79fddedwbdc82db8f8896d07@mail.gmail.com> <200608092346.47577.bob@tania.servebbs.org>
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Bob Richards wrote: > 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 One possible workaround is to use msdosfs instead of ufs. Seems to work fine for my regular user account. But I agree that floppy support sucks. Try accidentally mounting a write-protected floppy as rw. You get a flood of errors that cannot be cleared without a reboot. HTH, Micah
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