On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:01:37PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All. > I want to use the mtools, but I don't have the documentations about > mtools (and connot get it now). When I use mtool from user (not root) I > show: Can't open /dev/fd0: Permossion denied Cannot initialize 'A:'. > Need I write user to group floppy?
Yep:
# adduser somebody floppy
and then "somebody" needs to log off and on again (groups are only
picked up at login time).
> I want also to allow user to use Zip device. What is to be done
> in addition to `drive z: file="/dev/sda4"' in mtools.conf?
I don't know whether this is the correct approach, but I ended up doing
# chgrp floppy /dev/sda4
exactly for this purpose. After all, a zip disk is more like a floppy
than a "real" disk.
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Karl E. Jørgensen
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