From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 10 10:00:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA16591 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 10:00:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (ns2.BEACH.net [209.25.4.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA16585 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 10:00:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id QAA10391; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 16:59:54 GMT Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 09:59:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Gerard Giamberdine cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ordinary user mounting floppy question/problem In-Reply-To: <339CEA78.41C67EA6@dimensional.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Gerard Giamberdine wrote: > 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 ...) Make sure that /dev/fd0* is world read/writeable. Then use a mount point that the user has permissions on. Like mount /dev/fd0 /home/dan/mnt Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82