On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, James Mastros wrote: > On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 08:19:47PM -0400, Michael Stutz wrote: > > This works for the CD-ROM drive after doing "chgroup audio /dev/cdrom; > > chgroup audio /dev/hdc" as root (should I have done that?) but doing "mount > > /dev/fd0 /floppy" as a user still gets "mount: only root can do that": > > > > $ mount /dev/fd0 /floppy/ > > mount: only root can do that > > $ ls -l /dev/fd0 > > brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 0 May 27 1997 /dev/fd0 > > $ groups > > m dialout floppy audio dip
> Is /floppy listed in /etc/fstab with the "user" flag (IE "/dev/fd0 /3.5 auto > defaults,noauto,user 0 0")? /floppy isn't listed in /etc/fstab at all. So should I add an entry in /etc/fstab for /floppy? Another question, then -- is this something that should be put in /etc/fstab when the e2fsprogs package is first installed? I tried this on three Debian 2.1 machines and all three had the same problem -- first, I do this as root: # addgroup foo floppy # addgroup foo dip # addgroup foo audio Then when user foo next logs in, foo can do "pon" and "poff" with no problem, but foo still can't mount the floppy or mount the cd-rom drive (or play cd audio). Only after doing "chgroup audio /dev/cdrom; chgroup audio /dev/hdc" as root can user foo then play audio cds, but non-root users still can't use the floppy drive. I'd like to do this the right (preferred Debian) way, though. Is chgrouping /dev/cdrom and what it points to the "right" way to do it for the CD-ROM? What about the floppy -- is the "right" way to do it to add a line in /etc/fstab for the floppy?
