[LUAU] Mounting Drives and floppy access

[Michael & Diana Hasse]

Thanks Rob!
That is exactly what I needed.
Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-luau at luau.hi.net [mailto:owner-luau at luau.hi.net]On Behalf Of
> bbraun at sparcy.synack.net
> Sent: Thursday, December 17, 1998 6:41 PM
> To: luau at luau.hi.net
> Subject: Re: [LUAU] Mounting Drives and floppy access
>
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> On linux this is fairly simple.  In /etc/fstab, there is a "user"
> option.  This lets a normal user run the "mount" command for that
> particular entry in fstab.  Usually you'll want to put nodev, nosuid,
> and maybe noexec as well.  Just so they can't bring in a floppy and
> have special privleges.  More info on this is in the fstab and mount
> man pages.
>
> For machines other than linux that don't have the "user" option,
> there is the mtools package that allows user access.
>
> Rob
>
> On Thursday, Dec 1998 at 17:42:21 "Michael & Diana Hasse" wrote:
>  | I seem to remember this question being asked before, but I
> could not find
>  | the responses (if any).
>  | I want to give a regular "Joe User" the ability to mount and umount the
>  | cdrom and floppy drive.  Once the floppy is mounted he needs
> to also be able
>  | to write to the floppy.  I know mounting can be accomplished using sudo
>  | (once I get it installed on the system)  but the ability to write to an
>  | msdos file system floppy is giving me a hard time.
>  | Thanks
>  | Michael Hasse
>  |
>  |
>