mounting a floppy

Chris Liechti cliechti at gmx.net
Sat Nov 9 09:41:31 EST 2002


Simon Faulkner <news at titanic.co.uk> wrote in 
news:9n8qsug5ubc9kvu9qvssvli931vqq7m8mh at 4ax.com:

> I have written a CGI web frontend for a little system
> 
> I need to mount a floppy, write a file to it, unmount the floppy
> 
> Only root can do this and  I don't want to run Apache as root!

you, you better don't. you can edit fstab and specify "user" in the options  
column to allow a normal user to mount it.

/dev/fd0        /floppy         auto    defaults,user,noauto    0   0

chris

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