Hi! Lately (for the last few weeks) I've been unable to mount the floppy drive or su using one of my accounts. Mostly it's just annoying because the account that's having problems is the one I use for programming and for playing with possibly dangerous stuff-- my default account is fine. But, when I do need to get at the floppy when I'm programming, I have to log in as root on another terminal and transfer files between the floppy and the home dir that way, and then go back over to the terminal where I'm logged in to program; needless to say, this is a Bad Thing.
But I've looked through everything I can find and I can't find any explanation for it. Both accounts are members of the 'floppy' group, so according to what I've read there's no reason why I should be refused access to the floppy drive. The error message I get when I try to mount a floppy is: mount: Must be superuser to mount. As for not being allowed to su to root, that's odd, too. What happens is, I'll type in su, it'll prompt me for a password, I'll type it in (correctly), and then it'll tell me "su: Authentication failure Sorry." I can't figure out what the problem is there, either. Up until a few weeks ago, I didn't have any trouble mounting the floppy or su'ing. Does anybody have any idea what the problem might be? TIA. -- Vikki Roemer Registered Linux user #2880021 http://counter.li.org/ "Quod scripsi, scripsi." [Latin, "What I have written, I have written."] Homepage: http://compgrokker.tripod.com/ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GAT d-(?) s: a--- C++++(++) UL++++ P+>++++ L+++>++++ E>++ W++ N+ o? K- w--() O? M? V?(-) PS+(+++) PE++(+++) Y+ PGP++ t+@ 5 X-() R*(?) tv-- b+++(++) DI+ D--(?) G e-(*)>+++++ h! r-- x? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
