Mount Point permissions

[Micah]

Bob Richards wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 August 2006 23:23, you wrote:
> 
>>> What about chowning the permissions on /dev/fd0 to be root:floppyusers,
> 
> I went so far as chown bob:bob /dev/fd0 But after newfs get's through with the 
> new floppy, it's chowned to root. 
> 
>> add a group floppyusers to /etc/group and make bob a member of that group.
>> Chmod 664 /dev/fd0
> 
> Went down that road as well; created a group called "mounters", added bob to 
> it.... no good! I even copied newfs to /home/bob/bin, put home/bob/bin first 
> in the PATH, made that newfs setuid/setgid  bob no effect :-( Root wants to 
> own the newly created file system no matter who formatted or created it.
> 
>> Unfortunately I don't have any machines with floppy drives to test with.
> 
> I personally don't have a need for floppy drives either; but I am setting up a 
> dozen W/S to replace WINDOWZ in an office environment, and people expect to 
> be able to use their floppies (especially with the GUI tools in KDE 3.5). I 
> am hoping to use freebsd instead of Linux; which has become hard to maintain 
> in long-term use because of things like libraries changing so often. The lack 
> of "Library-Hell" in freebsd is refreshing. 
> 
> I guess "floppy-hell" is better than Library-hell :-) Floppy support is pretty 
> bad on freebsd! I made the mistake of ejecting a mounted floppy yesterday; 
> total system lock-up! I mean it was power off/on time! Not good!
>  
> Bob

One possible workaround is to use msdosfs instead of ufs. Seems to work 
fine for my regular user account. But I agree that floppy support sucks. 
Try accidentally mounting a write-protected floppy as rw. You get a 
flood of errors that cannot be cleared without a reboot.

HTH,
Micah