Dear S. Keeling, I do not believe that when it says that it is read only, that that means root can not write to it, but more that it is an important file that can damage the way the program starts up on boot if I make a mistake while editing it.
I printed a copy of your message as reference while I do the chmod 644/etc/ fstab. But I think it already is -rw-r--r-- 1 root root (and so on). However I will do the chmod 644/etc/fstab if adduser does not work. And I will go to the man pages for adduser before doing that. Thanks, Michael Walters _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ On May 4, 2004 10:57 pm, s. keeling wrote: > 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. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
