On May 5, 2004 03:23 am, Michael Walters wrote: > Hello All, > > 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.
If youre talking ssh... Really this has little/nothing to do with fstab, but rather who has permission to execute the mount and unmount commands. Unfortunately if you give him/her that permission they will be able to mount or unmount any of your drives. ------ or, if you mean you want him/her to be able to mount your drive to a directory on another machine you need to look into nfs [network filesystem]. > > At the present time I can only mount file systems on a floppy in my drive > as root, and want to be able to do it as a user. > > So I did a man fstab and learned how to look at my fstab file. > > I did a cd to /etc and then did a cat fstab to find out what was in my > /etc/ fstab file. > > I noticed that the line containing fd0 was as follows: > > /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat,auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0 where the last two 0's > were under <dump> and <pass>. > > I then did a vi fstab and i and got the following warning in red: > > "w10: Warning: changing a read only file". > > Not wanting to break something or to cause havoc to my system I did an > esc :q! and then sent you this message. > > Is it safe for me to edit the fstab file, and if so, how should I modify it > so that I can mount msdos type files on a floppy inserted into my floppy > drive? > it is safe to modify it if you know how. Man fstab and man mount should tell you what you need to know. > I want to give a friend of mine an account on my computer and give him the > capability to mount and umount msdos file systems on his floppy when he > inserts it in my floppy drive. > The fact that the auto option is set in your fstab for fd0 means the floppy will [read should] be auto-mounted when your friend tries to access it. hopefully that helps a little... Nick _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
