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Floppy disk access as a regular user?



Kevin,

Just include the "user" option in your /dev/fd[0|1] entry in etc/fstab.
See 'info fstab'.

Bill

Kevin M. Gleason wrote:

> Can anyone give me explicit steps to give users access to the floppy
> drive. I'm running Red Hat 6.1 and tried assigning each user (Guest
> user) to group Floppy but that doesn't do it.
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Kevin M. Gleason
>
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