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There is a good way to let all of the users mount the floppy and cdrom, first edit you /etc/fstab /dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 Not all systems allow auto for the floppy, but if your system does then you can make your floppy be any fs that is compiled into the kernel. If your system doesn't allow auto then you must have a seperate line for each file system that you might have on a floppy. If security is a concern for you you might add noexec to the options field. Jason Lenthe wrote: > > We recently got two new machines to run solely linux (woohoo!) down here in > the comp. sci. dept at St. Joe's. I want to be able to give non-root users > the ability to mount/umount cdroms and floppies and also powerdown. I thought > the easiest way to do this was to put a script owned by root in /usr/local/bin > to do 'mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy -t vfat' or whatever, then 'chmod +s' it, > but that doesn't seem to be working. Any suggestions ? > > Jason > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://plug.nothinbut.net > Announcements - http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion - http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug -- 0 0 Linux Force, Inc. http://www.LinuxForce.net " Home Page: http://www.netaxs.com/~ldc/ _______ooO ~ Ooo_______________________________________________ LeRoy D. Cressy /\_/\ mailto:ldc@netaxs.com Computer Consulting ( o.o ) Phone (215) 535-4037 > ^ < Fax (215) 535-4285 ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://plug.nothinbut.net Announcements - http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug