Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 16:16:56 -0500 From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> To: "kf7nn1@cybertrails.com" <kf7nn1@cybertrails.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Can't mount CD or floppies as non-super user Message-ID: <199812102119.QAA25159@laker.net>
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On Thu, 10 Dec 1998 12:27:59 -0600 (CST), kf7nn1@cybertrails.com wrote: >you may want to check the permissions on the >device itself. Yea, I tried that. I even added three of the devices to /etc/fbtab so it would change the permissions even more liberally when I log in as the average user. Still no luck. It appears that it's simply not possible to mount floppies or CDROMs as an average user under 2.2.8. I had read in the archives that it used to work for floppies, but I never found a successful case for the CD. Steve Friedrich Viva la FreeBSD!! Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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