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Date:      Thu, 18 Dec 1997 13:27:17 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Studded <Studded@dal.net>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, Tommy Hallgren <md6tommy@mdstud.chalmers.se>
Subject:   Re: Ord. user using mount
Message-ID:  <19971218132717.32710@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199712180212.SAA16286@mail.san.rr.com>; from Studded on Wed, Dec 17, 1997 at 06:09:08PM -0800
References:  <199712180212.SAA16286@mail.san.rr.com>

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On Wed, Dec 17, 1997 at 06:09:08PM -0800, Studded wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Dec 1997 09:54:57 +0100 (MET), Tommy Hallgren wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to make it possible for normal users(like my gf :-))) to
>> mount/umount dos and ufs diskettes.
>>
>> I created a new group called floppy and added her to that. Then I changed
>> the group of /dev/*fd0* to be floppy and made chmod g+rw *fd0*.
>>
>> But, when I try to mount I get:
>> 09:45:09 /$ mount_msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
>> mount_msdos: /dev/fd0: Permission denied
>>
>> What am I missing?
>
> 	Permissions on the mount point?  (/floppy)

Permissions on the mounter?  You have to be root to mount.  /$ implies
a non-root user.

Greg




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