Incoming from Michael Walters: > > I wanted to mount msdos filesystems on floppies as a user because I want to > give a friend of mine an account on my computer and enable him to mount and > umount file systems on his floppy when it is inserted in my floppy drive. > [snip] > /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat,auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0 where the last two > 0's > were under <dump> and <pass>.
The fstab entry is fine. Add your user to group floppy (useradd/adduser ??), and he should have full access to the floppy drive. As for the warning about editing the file, I don't know why fstab is read-only for root (assuming you were trying to edit it as root). Mine is: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1070 Apr 21 12:39 /etc/fstab You can change yours to that with "chmod 644 /etc/fstab". And to be truly paranoid, you can always make a copy of the file before you change it. I have things like /etc/X11/XF86config-4_works_20040420, so if I break anything I can back up to a known good copy. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
