On 26 Jan 1998, Paul Seelig wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johann Spies) writes: > > > I am trying to change /etc/fstab to allow the user to mount the floppy and > > the cdrom. > > > > The following lines did not help: > > > > /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,user 0 0 > > /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos defaults,noauto,user 0 0 > > > > Why not? > > > Are the users members of the 'cdrom' and 'floppy' groups? What is the > command user's are supposed to use for mounting, but resulting in the > error message stated in the subject header line? > > The command "mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy" works only for root, but > "mount /floppy" should properly work for every user who is member of > the 'floppy' group. The same applies for 'cdrom'.
I thought this was true, but it doesn't seem to be true anymore somehow. I am following hamm closely and using shadow passwords. When /bin/mount is setuid root, everybody can mount the floppy drive. When someone tries to mount something that is not in /etc/fstab, I get this error: mount: only root can do that I didn't expect it because mount is setuid root, but this is okay to me. However, when mount is not setuid root, only root can mount filesystems. Any user, whether a member of the floppy group or not, gets this: $ mount /floppy mount: must be superuser to use mount $ Note that the error is a different one. But it is still an error. The relevant entry in /etc/fstab reads: /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos defaults,noauto,user,umask=077 0 0 All the /dev/fd0* devices have these permissions: brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 0 Jan 9 15:05 /dev/fd0 Does anybody know what's going wrong on my computer? I think it worked once for me, but I am not sure how I did it then and how long ago it was. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
