The floppy Group


If, for whatever reason, console access is not appropriate for you and you need to give non-root users access to your system’s diskette drive, you can do so with the floppy group. Simply add the user(s) to the floppy group using the tool of your choice. Here is an example showing how gpasswd can be used to add user fred to the floppy group:

[root@bigdog root]# gpasswd -a fred floppy Adding user fred to group floppy [root@bigdog root]#

Now user fred will now be able to access the system’s diskette drive from the console.




Official Red Hat Linux Administrator's Guide
Official Red Hat Linux Administrators Guide
ISBN: 0764516957
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2002
Pages: 278
Authors: Red Hat Inc

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