Re: chown for the floppy group

["E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <tgakem@sg10.chem.tue.nl>]

> 
> I noticed when I'm logged in as a normal user (not root) I cannot write
> to the floppy drive.  I checked out the permissions, I'm in the floppy
> group but /floppy belongs to root and is of the group root.  While I was
> root user I tried to 
> 
> chown .floppy /floppy 
> 
> but it says, root is not a member of the group floppy.

Which is probably true. :)
What about this:

# chgrp floppy /floppy

HTH,
Eric

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