johnathan spectre on Wed, 9 Feb 2000 11:25:34 -0500 (EST)


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


Sudo works great for this.. Might want to try seting that up...


-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Lenthe <lenthe@mailhost.sju.edu>
To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net <plug@lists.nothinbut.net>
Date: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 10:07 AM
Subject: [PLUG] Letting non-root mount floppy/cdrom


>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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