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From: rich@chumbly.math.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
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Subject: Re: Permissions problem mounting floppy
To: rich@chumbly.math.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 09:41:25 -0600 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <199711081636.KAA27432@chumbly.math.missouri.edu> from "Rich Winkel" at Nov 8, 97 10:36:58 am
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I should also mention that mount_msdos is setuid to root.

According to Rich Winkel:
> I'm running 2.2.5-STABLE.
> I can only mount floppies as root.  As a regular user, I get:
> katy> mount_msdos /dev/fd0 /fd
> mount_msdos: /dev/fd0: Permission denied
> 
> Here's my setup:
> ls -ld /fd
> drwxrwxrwx  2 root  wheel  512 Jun 21 19:09 /fd/
> 
> ls -l /dev/fd0*
> brw-rw-rw-  9 root  operator    2,   0 Jun 21 13:51 /dev/fd0
> brw-rw-rw-  1 root  operator    2,   4 Jun 21 13:51 /dev/fd0.1200
> brw-rw-rw-  1 root  operator    2,   3 Jun 21 13:51 /dev/fd0.1440
> brw-rw-rw-  1 root  operator    2,   2 Jun 21 13:51 /dev/fd0.1480
> brw-rw-rw-  1 root  operator    2,   1 Jun 21 13:51 /dev/fd0.1720
> brw-rw-rw-  1 root  operator    2,   8 Jun 21 13:51 /dev/fd0.360
> brw-rw-rw-  1 root  operator    2,   7 Jun 21 13:51 /dev/fd0.720
> brw-rw-rw-  1 root  operator    2,   6 Jun 21 13:51 /dev/fd0.800
> brw-rw-rw-  1 root  operator    2,   5 Jun 21 13:51 /dev/fd0.820
> brw-rw-rw-  9 root  operator    2,   0 Jun 21 13:51 /dev/fd0a
> brw-rw-rw-  9 root  operator    2,   0 Jun 21 13:51 /dev/fd0b
> brw-rw-rw-  9 root  operator    2,   0 Jun 21 13:51 /dev/fd0c
> brw-rw-rw-  9 root  operator    2,   0 Jun 21 13:51 /dev/fd0d
> brw-rw-rw-  9 root  operator    2,   0 Jun 21 13:51 /dev/fd0e
> brw-rw-rw-  9 root  operator    2,   0 Jun 21 13:51 /dev/fd0f
> brw-rw-rw-  9 root  operator    2,   0 Jun 21 13:51 /dev/fd0g
> brw-rw-rw-  9 root  operator    2,   0 Jun 21 13:51 /dev/fd0h
> 
> What's going on????
> 
> Thanks for any help!!!
> 
> Rich
>