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"Kevin M. Gleason" wrote: > > I did what you suggested but still (after rebooting) when I try to: > mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy > I get the message > mount: only root can do that Ordinarily, only root can mount a filesystem. The mount command does have the `user' option, which if you include it in your fstab file for that filesystem, will allow a regular user to mount a floppy. It is IMPORTANT that you READ THE MAN PAGE for mount regarding this option, because it does have certain implications. > which makes me wonder if the mount command doesn't have permissions set to > 700 - would that be it? When I try to mount the drive from the desktop icon > with a native ext2 disk it mounts (even when I'm not guest) but when I try > to do a mount at the terminal--I get that message. It's easy to tell if the command has permissions 500 or 700; if you are not root, you will get "Permission denied." when you try to run it. So that's not the case. If you have the `usermode' package installed, it includes config files and commands that allow regular users who are logged in on the console (or X session, still considered the console) to run certain commands that are normally only available to root. Not all distributions have it, but most more recent ones do, so I understand. Among them is definitely RedHat (all of the 6.X releases and maybe earlier). I've mucked with this stuff, but only a little bit, so I'm not too familiar with this. But check out the man pages for: userinfo(1) usermount(1) userpasswd(1) consolehelper(8) userhelper(8) [Note: the number in parenthesis is the "section" of the manual that the pages are in; that's a fairly standard way to indicate that. See the man manpage for more details on sections...] -- PGP/GPG Public key at http://cerberus.ne.mediaone.net/~derek/pubkey.txt Derek D. Martin | Senior UNIX Systems/Network Administrator Arris Interactive | A Nortel Company derekm at mediaone.net | dmartin at ne.arris-i.com ------------------------------------------------- - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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