[ale] Permission hell question

[Sean Kilpatrick]

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On Wednesday 30 June 2004 03:50 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
|  Maybe Sean can post the specifics of the actual zip 
| interface?

I am following this discussion with some (slightly bemused)
interest.
But I am not certain exactly what specifics you might want
here. My zip drive is an IDE device.  I have a hard drive
and the CD/DVD burner on the primary IDE connector and the
second hard drive and the zip drive on the secondary IDE
connector.  The two hard drives are linked in a RAID.

Someone (Dow?) wrote that the safest way for beginners is to
su to root and mount/copy from there.  I would posit that
beginners should NOT be given the suggestion to act as root 
unnecessarily as a mistyped command can do enormous damage.
It's sorta like telling your grandmother she can open up the
box and add a stick of memory. <grin>

other parts of the zip setup:

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fstab:

/dev/hdd4     /mnt/zip    auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

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auto.misc

zip  -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,gid=users,uid=nobody,umask=7   :/dev/hdd4

- ----------------------
permissions:

    brw-------   1 kilpatms disk    22,  68 Jan 30  2003 hdd4



Sean

    
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