Kyle Burton on Wed, 9 Feb 2000 10:05:41 -0500 (EST)


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Re: [PLUG] Letting non-root mount floppy/cdrom


Look into /etc/fstab -- man fstab

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On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Jason Lenthe wrote:

> We recently got two new machines to run solely linux (woohoo!) down here in 
> the comp. sci. dept at St. Joe's.  I want to be able to give non-root users
> the ability to mount/umount cdroms and floppies and also powerdown.  I thought
> the easiest way to do this was to put a script owned by root in /usr/local/bin 
> to do 'mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy -t vfat' or whatever, then 'chmod +s' it, 
> but that doesn't seem to be working.  Any suggestions ?
> 
> Jason
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