From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 9 22:42:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA11200 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 22:42:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blackhole.dimensional.com (root@blackhole.dimensional.com [208.206.176.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA11193 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 22:42:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from myname.my.domain (p23.pm-8.pm.dimcom.net [208.206.177.247]) by blackhole.dimensional.com (8.7.6/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA19578 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 23:42:42 -0600 (MDT) Posted-Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 23:42:42 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <339CEA78.41C67EA6@dimensional.com> Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 23:47:36 -0600 From: Gerard Giamberdine X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Ordinary user mounting floppy question/problem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello everyone, Can a ordinary user on a FBSD 2.2.2 system mount a 1.44M floppy drive. (I read somewhere that it's not allowed?). If it can be done, I'm sure running out of idea why as root I can, but not as anybody else. All attempts return: mount_msdos /dev/fd0.1440 /mnt (or mount -t msdos ...) mount_msdos: /dev/fd0.1440: Operation not permitted I can't remember if I ever had this work before and am not sure if incorrect permissions are causing problems (a couple chown|grps -R 's got away from me). I've tried all kinds of permission combos on /dev, /dev/fd0*, /sbin/, /sbin/mount, and /sbin/mount_msdos without any success. Thanks for any light on this! Gerard Giamberdine