On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 11:46 -0700, Mike Castle wrote: > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Jochen Schulz <m...@well-adjusted.de> wrote: > > dr.hugo.z.hackenbush: > >> > >> Hi, I am having trouble mounting the floppy in lenny .Can mount as root > >> but wont let me mount as user? Tried #adduser (name) floppy in > >> terminal but still wont let me in? any clues please? > > > > You need to login again after adding your user to the floppy group. Did > > you do that? > > I would also recommend setting up pam to handle this for you using the > pam_group stuff. Whoever logs in on the console (via tty or gdm) > should probably get access to all sorts of physical devices, like > floppy, audio devices, cd/dvd drives, and so on. > > That way, if you ssh into your machine, you don't accidentally start > affecting local devices remotely (you'd have to explicitly go through > root to do so). > > mrc >
Will have to swat up on the pam stuff? Forgot to mention that i have installed the floppy after the Lenny installation. suppose that is the problem? J f -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
