Jay Kline <list at slushpupie.com> wrote: > > The problem I see with this method is mostly a question of ownership. > Normaly when a DOS filesystem is mounted, the owner is root. of course, you > can change that, but I think only root can. So someone logging in would need > to either execute some setuid script (bad idea for a login, I would think) or > their home directory would be only writeable by root, or everyone would have > access to it. Yeah, the solution to that would be to allow the user to mount the floppy by setting an appropriate option in /etc/fstab.. Of course, you probably run into catch-22 situations where you can't unmount the disk because the script telling the disk to unmount is on /home or something. I dunno, having /home on a floppy is an interesting idea, but I think the cost of implementing something like that just outweighs the simplicity of having /floppy, for instance.. Still, this can get messy when people eject the disk at the wrong time, forgetting to unmount. Get LS-120 or Zip drives that will lock and prevent ejection when mounted.. Bah, if only UDF writing worked in Linux, then you could do the same thing with CD-RWs (cheaper media at the cost of spendier drives, though they're getting pretty cheap these days). -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Don't be a sexist, broads / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ hate that. \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020130/a6694ab3/attachment.pgp