Re: gfloppy & write permissons SOLVED

[Csanyi Pal <csanyipal@sks.co.yu>]

On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 08:10:48PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote:
> 
> I try to use gfloppy but get the error message:
> You do not have the proper permissions to write to /dev/floppy/0 or 
> /dev/fd0, formatting will not be possible.
> 
> If I use sudo (sudo gfloppy), than I can format a floppy.
> 
> I edit the sudoers file with vigr and add my loginname to floppy:
> floppy:x:25:hal,csanyipal
> 
> with no effect.
> I change the /floppy permissons:
> ls -dl /floppy/
> drwxr-xr-x  2 csanyipal csanyipal 4096 2005-04-08 18:48 /floppy/
> 
> with no effect to.
> 
> How can I get the write permisson on /floppy?

I edit the fstab file and add unhide to this line:
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto users,noauto,unhide 0 0

I can now format floppies with gfloppy! :-)

-- 
Regards,
Paul 
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