On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:01:37PM +0200, petrov@mao.kiev.ua 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. -- Karl E. Jørgensen karl@jorgensen.com www.karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: "We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." (Linus Torvalds about the superiority of Linux on the Amsterdam Linux Symposium)
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