your mail

[Viktor Lazlo]

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Cavallini David wrote:

> Recently I've installed the version 5.1 of the FreeBSD.
> I added a new user with login 'davcav' in the 'wheel' group and also I
> added this user in the 'operator' group.
> In the new user login the commands 'shutdown -p  now' and 'su' works but
> when I try to mount the floppy disk
> with the command 'mount_msdosfs /dev/fd0 /floppy' return the following message
>
> mount_msdosfs: /dev/fd0: Operation not permitted
>
> Somebody in the web suggest to use the 'su' command for mounting the device
> and read the data in the '/floppy' directory. Similar instruction are used
> for unmounting the device. Does exist a way for mounting directly the data
> from floppy (or CD) from a non-root user (in my case 'davcav' user) ?

http://lantech.geekvenue.net/chucktips/jason/chuck/987270955/index_html

Cheers,

Viktor