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Re: mtools



On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 05:03:56PM -0500, Seneca wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 03:04:40PM -0500, Mark Laird Copper wrote:
> > How do people configure mtools under Debian?  My default install
> > won't let a user access /dev/fd0.  Google and the mtools mailing
> > list searches turn up recommendations to run mtools setuid, but the
> > mtools info clearly says "mtools works perfectly well even when not
> > installed setuid root".  Am I missing something?
> 
> The problem is not mtools, users need to be part of the group "floppy"
> to use floppy drives.
> 
> -- Seneca seneca-cunningham@rogers.com

Ouch! Just like with cdplayers.  Thanks.

Mark



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