Hello S. Keeling, Thank you for the advice to adduser keeling floppy which seems pretty easy to do and safe to do. My friend is trustworthy, and I just want him to experience using linux. I am also going to lend him the knoppix disk if I get it tonight.
I am going to do the adduser command you suggested, substituting my friend's name for "keeling". Many thanks in advance. Michael _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ On June 2, 2004 04:19 pm, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Michael Walters: > > /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat,auto defaults, user, noauto 0 0 > > Device Mount Point FSType Mount Switches > ------ ----------- ------ -------------- > /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat,auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0 > > So, "mount /floppy" will mount /dev/fd0 on the directory /floppy, > interpreting the filesystem either as vfat or by autodetecting the > filesystem type. Non-privileged users can mount it, and it won't be > mounted automatically at boot time. Actually, if you have the "auto", > I believe the "vfat" is redundant. > > Anyone you want to be able to mount it should be added to the group > "floppy": > > adduser keeling floppy > > > But I do not want to do anything dangerous, so I will see if anyone at > > the meeting tonight confirms my suspicions. > > As long as you trust the people who're going to be using this, it's > reasonably safe, especially since they're going to have physical > access to the machine anyway, which means all bets are off security- > wise. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
