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- This is the README file for the userfloppy package for Linux
- Date: 28-Jun-94
- Version: 0.2
- Author: Peter Orbaek <poe@daimi.aau.dk>
- Romano Giannetti <romano@sensores2.fis.ucm.es>
-
- Changes from 0.1 to 0.2
- =======================
-
- Stupid bug fix. Thanks to Samson H. Lee <shl0@Lehigh.EDU>
-
- Quick installation guide
- ========================
-
- Edit the #define FDFORMAT in userfdformat.c to specify your full path
- to fdformat.
-
- make
-
- It builds cleanly with gcc-2.5.8 and Linux 1.1.18 (libc 4.5.21)
-
- And optionally as root (CHECK the Makefile first!):
-
- make install-man
- make install
-
-
- Description
- ===========
-
- This package permits users to have a full access to floppy
- disks. (And, but I cannot test it, cdrom and similar).
-
- First, usermount and userumount allow user to mount their disks when
- authorized by the system manager. The main difference between this
- mount and the old usermount is that the superuser can specify more
- than one entry for the pair device/directory in the authorization
- file, with different type. If the /etc/ufstab look like the one in the
- dist, users can mount /dev/fd0 on /floppy with types msdos,minix,ext2,
- umsdos. the /floppy dir is chown()ed to the user if the mount was
- successful.
-
- The userfdformat is simply a wrapper that call fdformat allowing to
- normal users to low level format floppy where they have write
- permissions.
-
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