Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!chinet!les From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Mounting floppies Message-ID: <7025@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 28 Nov 88 23:11:00 GMT References: <129@minya.UUCP> <14598@mcdchg.chi.il.us> <139@minya.UUCP> Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix Lines: 14 In article <139@minya.UUCP> jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes: >> > This despite the fact that the /dev/dsk file has 666 permissions and >> > /fd has 777 permissions. Only root can do a mount. >Unix. We'd like Unix to be able to do some things that DOS can do, like >sticking in a floppy disk and using its files. >OK, so how do I get it to do what I want? Can't you just make /etc/mount setuid-root? Les Mikesell