Re: Q: User access to hardware peripherals - preferred method?
On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 08:19:47PM -0400, Michael Stutz wrote:
> This works for the CD-ROM drive after doing "chgroup audio /dev/cdrom;
> chgroup audio /dev/hdc" as root (should I have done that?) but doing "mount
> /dev/fd0 /floppy" as a user still gets "mount: only root can do that":
>
> $ mount /dev/fd0 /floppy/
> mount: only root can do that
> $ ls -l /dev/fd0
> brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 0 May 27 1997 /dev/fd0
> $ groups
> m dialout floppy audio dip
Is /floppy listed in /etc/fstab with the "user" flag (IE "/dev/fd0 /3.5 auto
defaults,noauto,user 0 0")? That's probably it; if it were a permissions
problem, you'd get somthing along the lines of "mount: access denied". (I'm
not certian: I always run as root. Avoids permission problems.)
-=- James Mastros
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