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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:3070 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5714 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!Materna.DE!pc15 From: Thomas.Wintergerst@hb.materna.de (Thomas Wintergerst) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: mtools Date: Tue, 11 Jul 95 08:17:07 GMT Organization: Dr. Materna GmbH Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3tt8hh$fka@peanuts.Materna.DE> References: <DBI17w.2q6@curia.ucc.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc15.hb.materna.de X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #3 In article <DBI17w.2q6@curia.ucc.ie>, turlough@odyssey.ucc.ie (Turlough FitzPatrick) wrote: >I ahve mtools installed on a machine running >FreeBSD-2.0.5. I can use the floppy drives >whan I am operating as root but not as any >other user. It returns the error: >init: open "/dev/rfd0.1440": Premission denied. >Anyone got any idea how I might fix this? All devices like drives and streamers are only accessible by privileged users. To change this add read and/or write permission for "others" to the device entries in "/dev". You will want to change this in the MAKEDEV script. ------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Wintergerst | Phone: +49 421 20127-0 Dr. Materna GmbH | Fax : +49 421 20127-90 Am Fallturm 5 | EMail: Thomas.Wintergerst@hb.materna.de D-28359 Bremen | CIS : 100072,1156 -------------------------------------------------------------