Re: [aclug-L] Mounting floppy - owner and group

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What you need to do is specify: 

mount -o mode=0775,uid=1000,gid=1000

or something along those lines -- replacing 1000 with your appropriate 
uid and gid, of course.

It's a bad idea to use mode 0777 (security risks).

"Troy Wolf" <troy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> And now I'm wondering why I can only mount the floppy as root even
> though I am using the 'user' option in fstab?  I think I might get
> the functionality I describe above if I can mount the floppy AS the
> user misclc INSTEAD of root.  I'm not sure, but I was attempting
> from that angle and got stopped again.

If you specify user, it's also a good idea to specify nosuid and
nodev.  If you haven't figured it out yet, paste the relevant line
from your fstab and the specific mount command you're using here and
we can maybe spot the problem.

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