SUMMARY: Permission problems using floppy

From: Jim Johnson <jj_at_uniprise.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 17:06:19 -0500

Hi Folks,

Well, the quick consensus is that it's expected behavior.

Installing sudo or writing a suid root C or perl wrapper will take
care of the problem.

Thanks for the quick answers as always,

Thanks to...
alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com <again>
martin_at_jerry.alf.dec.com
teh_at_chinook.phy.anl.gov


JJ

<Original query>

Hi Folks,
 
This must be a no brainer but I simply can't see why I can't get
no-prived users access to the floppy on a AlphaStation 200 4/233
 
I'm running 3.2c
 
Mtools works fine but they want to be able to mount it as a ufs file
system. I've tried a bunch of things. First I gave world rw access
to the floppy devices (fd0a, rfd0a, fd0c, rfd0c) which seemed to make
Mtools happy.
 
I can format and newfes the disk. I just can't mount it. I've tried
mount points in the users directories all the way to root mount
points.
 
mount -vt ufs /dev/fd0a /foo
/dev/fd0a on /foo: Not owner

Where foo is owned by the non-prived user, has 777 permissions on it.
 
Any ideas?
 
Thanks
 
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Received on Tue Dec 19 1995 - 23:34:10 NZDT

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