[newbie] Writing to floppy disc

[Thanh Nguyen-Huynh]

I am jumping in so I don't really know what was on this threat but konquorer 
will have uid of who ever start the X server, if that user is not root, 
konquerer will not be able to read the file. To read the file, you can change 
the owner of the file, or change the permission of the file. Or you can start 
the terminal, su, then fork another konquorer. This one will have root uid 
thus can do anything.

I am guesting you are having problem mounting and using the floppy disk. To 
make it easy, you can change the permission of the mount point to 777 and add 
"user" to the flag associate with the floppy drive in /etc/fstab. That way you 
can mount and use the floppy disk as a regular user.

--Thanh


>===== Original Message From Andrew Barnes <andrewbarnes@shaw.ca> =====
>Sorry I'd forgot to mention that you won't get a response if the chmod
>command is successful - no news is good news :)
>
>Unfortunately I haven't used Konqueror in a long time nor do I have a system
>handy to test at the moment - I'm hoping someone will chime in with some
>help on that issue.
>
>PS: Don't forget to unmount the floppy drive when you take the floppy out:
>umount /mnt/floppy
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: newbie-admin@vlug.org [mailto:newbie-admin@vlug.org] On Behalf Of
>Bryan
>Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 6:17 PM
>To: newbie@vlug.org
>Subject: RE: [newbie] Writing to floppy disc
>
>Hi Andrew I've now figured out that I can copy and paste from Konsole to
>email and vice versa.
>
>chmod u+rwx /mnt/floppy When I do this as root it seems to be accepted,
>no response, back to prompt. I have copied a file (as root) from
>/home/usr/Documents to /mnt/floppy. I can not read the file through
>konquerer - permission is denied. There is a padlock symbol on the file
>icon in konquerer.
>
>On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 19:34, Andrew Barnes wrote:
>> =======================
>> > cd /mnt ; ls -l | grep floppy
>> >
>> The response was drwxrwxrwx 0 root 0 May 9 9:39 floppy/
>> =======================
>>
>> K - it's saying that /mnt/floppy has full privileges enabled for everyone.
>>
>> =======================
>> > chmod u+rwx /mnt/floppy
>>
>> Now the response is "no such device or address"
>> =======================
>>
>> That's weird considering the output from where you checked the permissions
>> earlier.
>>
>> What does this command show you for output:
>> cd /mnt ; ls
>>
> cd /mnt ; ls
>cdrom/  cdrom2/  floppy/
>[bryan@d206-116-251-229 mnt]$
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: newbie-admin@vlug.org [mailto:newbie-admin@vlug.org] On Behalf Of
>> Bryan
>> Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 10:59 AM
>> To: newbie@vlug.org
>> Subject: RE: [newbie] Writing to floppy disc
>>
>
>> > ===================================
>> > How to check and deal with permissions from Command Line:
>> >
>> > cd /mnt ; ls -l | grep floppy Again - different result this time.
>
>[bryan@d206-116-251-229 mnt]$ cd /mnt ; ls -l | grep floppy
>drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 May 11 17:09 floppy/
>[bryan@d206-116-251-229 mnt]$
>
>It seems as if I can't tell the system I am the User. Therre's only me.
>
>Bryan
>
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