Re: more problems with drive mount

[Ben Frantzdale <frantzdb admin arhs net>]

Unfortunately...
[root@armory-us337 .gnome-desktop]# chmod 666 /dev/fd0
[root@armory-us337 .gnome-desktop]# exit
exit
[ben@armory-us337 .gnome-desktop]$ mount /floppy/
mount: must be superuser to use mount
[ben@armory-us337 .gnome-desktop]$ 

:-(

thanks,
    Ben

On Wed, 26 May 1999, albi wrote:

> On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 05:19:35PM -0400, Ben Frantzdale wrote:
> 
> hi Ben,
> 
> > I tried both this and the other suggjestion (chmod 660 /dev/fd0) but no
> > luck... 
> > More ideas?
> 
> [root@onderste /root]# ls -la /dev/fd0
> brw-rw-r--   1 root     floppy     2,   0 May  5  1998 /dev/fd0
> 
> as you can see, /dev/fd0 has owner root and group "floppy", you can put your
> users in group "floppy", or use chmod 666 /dev/fd0, although the latter
> might be an security isuee if you're on a LAN or internet etc.
> 
> try chmod 666 /dev/fd0 just to test if that works for an user.
> 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> >    Ben
> > 
> > On Wed, 26 May 1999, James Henstridge wrote:
> > 
> > > Actually, you probably want to check that the mount command is set uid
> > > root.  If it isn't, then the user option has not effect.  You may also
> > > want to set the mode argument for DOS file systems, so you can read/write
> > > the files on the disk.
> > > 
> > > James.
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Email: james@daa.com.au
> > > WWW:   http://www.daa.com.au/~james/
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 26 May 1999, albi wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 12:01:41AM -0400, Ben Frantzdale wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > I can't get users to be able to mount drives (zip, floppy, cdrom)
> > > > 
> > > > > /dev/fd0                /floppy vfat     user,noauto
> > > > 
> > > > Of course you performed a "chmod 666 /dev/fd0" or "chmod 660 /dev/fd0" ?
> > > > 
> > > > -- 
> > > > - greetings, Albert -
> > > > -- I doubt, therefore I might be.
> > > > 
> > > > 
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> - greetings, Albert -
> -- I doubt, therefore I might be.
> 
> 
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