On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 11:08 PM, Sven Arvidsson <s...@whiz.se> wrote: > On Wed, 2015-12-16 at 22:09 +0100, Anders Andersson wrote: >> Believe it or not, but I still have a floppy disk drive in my >> workstation, and I have to use it occasionally! I just noticed that >> my >> user was not allowed to write to /dev/fd0 even though it belongs to >> the group "floppy". I found that /dev/fd0 belongs to the group >> "disk", >> and I don't think it should. Granting a user the ability to write to >> floppies is not nearly as dangerous as allowing it to write to >> everything in the "disk" group. > > There's a (quite long) bug report about this here, but it seems to be > for systems without systemd: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=751892
Interesting! I had no idea such a simple case could be so problematic (or that the maintainers could be so rude). I think that bug report covers my case well enough. My immediate issue was that I could not write a disk image to /dev/fd0, and I'm not sure how the solutions could help me, but really, it's rare enough that I don't mind sudoing. I just thought it was an interesting regression. Thanks for the links! // Anders
