Re: A possibly foolish technical question...

[Shawn Mattingly <smattin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Robert G. Brown wrote:

> > 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.

You could set up groups like Mike said, or just chmod 755 /dev/fd0 (sets global
read-write, group read-write, and owner read-write-execute on the first floppy).  You
don't even really have to mount it...check out the mtools package (comes as part of
the Slackware distribution, it's probably also in RedHat) manpage.

Shawn