Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 23:46:46 -0400 From: Bob Richards <bob@tania.servebbs.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mount Point permissions Message-ID: <200608092346.47577.bob@tania.servebbs.org> In-Reply-To: <ba5e78ea0608092023m79fddedwbdc82db8f8896d07@mail.gmail.com> References: <200608071755.57239.bob@tania.servebbs.org> <200608092304.22781.bob@tania.servebbs.org> <ba5e78ea0608092023m79fddedwbdc82db8f8896d07@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wednesday 09 August 2006 23:23, you wrote: > > What about chowning the permissions on /dev/fd0 to be root:floppyusers, > I went so far as chown bob:bob /dev/fd0 But after newfs get's through with the new floppy, it's chowned to root. > add a group floppyusers to /etc/group and make bob a member of that group. > Chmod 664 /dev/fd0 Went down that road as well; created a group called "mounters", added bob to it.... no good! I even copied newfs to /home/bob/bin, put home/bob/bin first in the PATH, made that newfs setuid/setgid bob no effect :-( Root wants to own the newly created file system no matter who formatted or created it. > Unfortunately I don't have any machines with floppy drives to test with. I personally don't have a need for floppy drives either; but I am setting up a dozen W/S to replace WINDOWZ in an office environment, and people expect to be able to use their floppies (especially with the GUI tools in KDE 3.5). I am hoping to use freebsd instead of Linux; which has become hard to maintain in long-term use because of things like libraries changing so often. The lack of "Library-Hell" in freebsd is refreshing. I guess "floppy-hell" is better than Library-hell :-) Floppy support is pretty bad on freebsd! I made the mistake of ejecting a mounted floppy yesterday; total system lock-up! I mean it was power off/on time! Not good! Bob
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