Mount Point permissions

[Bob Richards]

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