From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 5 23:40:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA26748 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 23:40:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from frosk.zoo.uib.no (frosk.zoo.uib.no [129.177.64.31]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA26743 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 23:40:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from oystein@localhost) by frosk.zoo.uib.no (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA02348; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 08:39:53 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 08:39:53 +0100 (MET) From: Oystein Soreide To: Jason Bennett cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CD device In-Reply-To: <199611060417.XAA02828@r33h77.res.gatech.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Jason Bennett wrote: > my A drive via mtools, I'm told I cannot unless I am root. How can I > set the permissions so I can access these devices normally? Is it just > a chmod on the /dev directory? The permission on fd0 is 660 with root as owner and operator as group. You have to chmod the fd0 device or set yourself into the operatorgroup. You can alternatively change the group ownership of the device. =D8ystein ------------------------------------------------------ =D8ystein S=F8reide Institute of Zoology, University of Bergen Allegt 36, 5007 Bergen Norway Phone # +47 55 58 20 13 (study office)