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Re: Mtools questions.



on Thu, Feb 28, 2002, Karl E. Jorgensen (karl@jorgensen.com) wrote:
> 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).

The "newgrp" command can be used as well, though this forks a new shell.
Logging in fresh is the best bet.

Peace.

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