From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 10 04:50:12 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 3790316A4DA for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 04:50:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: from relay1.av-mx.com (relay1.av-mx.com [137.118.16.126]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87A2943D45 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 04:50:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) X-Virus-Scan-Time: 0 Received: from [137.118.16.62] (HELO mx1.av-mx.com) by relay1.av-mx.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with SMTP id 344734325 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 00:50:11 -0400 Received: (qmail 21529 invoked from network); 10 Aug 2006 04:50:09 -0000 Received: from dsl25232.ywave.com (HELO ?192.168.1.65?) (micahjon@ywave.com@216.227.113.232) by 0 with SMTP; 10 Aug 2006 04:50:09 -0000 X-CLIENT-IP: 216.227.113.232 X-CLIENT-HOST: dsl25232.ywave.com Message-ID: <44DABB00.3070304@ywave.com> Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:50:08 -0700 From: Micah User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060730) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bob Richards References: <200608071755.57239.bob@tania.servebbs.org> <200608092304.22781.bob@tania.servebbs.org> <200608092346.47577.bob@tania.servebbs.org> In-Reply-To: <200608092346.47577.bob@tania.servebbs.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.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 04:50:12 -0000 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