A possibly foolish technical question...

["Robert G. Brown" <bob@xxxxxxx>]

To all those folks who REALLY know how to use Linux -

Since I've long claimed that there's no such thing as a foolish question, I
thought I'd kill two birds with one stone by asking:

Turns out that when I want to mount floppies (and maybe other things), I've
got to become root to do it. Now, this is not a terrible thing, but I really
have a problem with being able to access tuff on a filesystem so mounted. I
colleague tells me this condition also applied to zip drives, etc. 

I do not like this. I don't. Honest.  Having convinced the system administra-
tor to insert a floppy and mount it, I want to run apps, copy to and from,
and otherwise enjoy all the benefits of device use.  As a system administrator,
I want to keep my users happy, and I don't want to grant them (or their apps)
any more priveledges than are needed. I also hate listening to these people 
complain just because they can't get to some stinky little floppy.

OK, I've spoken my peace, switching hats where needed to make all my points....

                                                   Thanks and Regards,
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