Mounting Floppy as user[fixed]

[joeham]

When I am a regular user, the floppy icon will not mount a floppy disk. I get the message that only root can do that. My user is a member of the floppy group. How do I get the users in the floppy group to be able to mount the floppy?

Floppy mounting / unmounting works fine via the desktop icon if I am root.

[gapan]

Does this help?

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... er-167200/

Sorry, I don't have any PCs with a floppy, so I can't actually help you more.

[joeham]

Yes it helped.

I changed fstab from:
dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0

to:

dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,users,rw,umask=00 0 0

I think this is "fixed".

this link really cleared it up for me:

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

[gapan]

From the mount man page:

users Allow every user to mount and unmount the file system. This option implies the options noexec, nosuid, and nodev (unless overridden by subsequent options, as in the option line users,exec,dev,suid).

So I don't think it's a security risk. In any case if someone has physical access to your PC, mounting a floppy should be the least of your concerns.

[.:B:.]

You could change it to 'user', 'users' means user A can umount a floppy mounted by user B.

Of course I think it's rather an improbable situation, but you never know .

[thenktor]

People still use floppy? *scnr*

[Duncan_Idaho]

People still use floppy? *scnr*

I was thinking the same thing

[joeham]

I still use paper as well.

My computers are very old and they like floppy disks.

BTW the users in the fstab is not a user name or group, it just means not root which is the default.
I discovered that after I did some research on fstab.

I am not sure what the utility of the floppy group is anymore since nobody seems to care.

Thanks for everybodys help.

[.:B:.]

BTW the users in the fstab is not a user name or group, it just means not root which is the default.

It means users can mount/umount devices. It has nothing to do with usernames or groups. You can try to drop in a username in fstab but it won't eat it.

The group is mostly legacy stuff I think. Udev and HAL have made most groups obsolete, all removable devices are thrown in /media nowadays.

Of course a different group means you can have users X and Y acces e.g. optical units but not the floppies, and vice versa. I don't think it's practical in a small home environment, but I can imagine it being useful on larger deployments.