device (fd0, cdrom) permissions

slacard · 09-29-2003, 03:21 PM

I just installed slackware9.0 and it works great! Even the sound works. My regular distro has been SuSE. I started a few years ago with 7.3 and now have 8.1; went to debian but admin is an uphill battle.
The question I have right now is that I can only write to the floppy as root. I even changed permissions (chmod ug+x fd0) and when I entered ls -l the permissions showed up as rwx. Yet I still can't write to the floppy without being root. I suppose the same is true for my cdwriter but I haven't gotten that far yet. Is there some perferred way (correct way) to enable user access of devices?

matt3333 · 09-29-2003, 07:28 PM

Yes there is a way to do this correctly.... If i can remember correctly u have to open up ftab or mtab i cant member which one anyone it will show /dev/fd0 then follow it along until u see the primissons or whatever they are but u will see root. etc just put in ,users after the last one.....I hope u understand what im trying to say here im not on my linux box right now im not home so i cant tell u exactly what line it is and whats in the line but if u still dont understand post ur ftab and mtab and i will tell u what do to...I hope this helps

Matt3333

slacard · 10-01-2003, 01:26 AM

Here is my fstab:
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb7 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb2 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda1 /fat-c vfat defaults 1 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

slacard · 10-01-2003, 01:29 AM

Hmm I guess that the quick message post limits the lines because I had also added that I'm not as clear on how Slackware sets up fstab, but I think I would just replace owner with user. Is that right? No other changes are necessary?

thundersnows · 10-01-2003, 06:21 AM

yes, just change the owners to your user group for example :
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,users,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,users 0 0

yocompia · 10-01-2003, 11:26 AM

a quick fix i used to fix this was to change the permissions on the /mnt/floppy directory to 777 (i left the owner as root, but this might not be such a good idea). so issue "chgrp users /mnt/floppy && chmod 777 /mnt/floppy". i don't think you have to goof with the fstab, just the permissions on the mount point.