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
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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