Are you sure you want to allow users to mount the floppy ?
Would the mtools work for you ?
There are some security issues:
Take a look at the nosuid mount option.
man mount
....
(iii) Normally, only the superuser can mount file systems.
However, when fstab contains the user option on a line,
then anybody can mount the corresponding system.
Thus, given a line
/dev/cdrom /cd iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide
any user can mount the iso9660 file system found on his
CDROM using the command
mount /dev/cdrom
or
mount /cd
For more details, see fstab(5). Only the user that
mounted a filesystem can unmount it again. If any user
should be able to unmount, then use users instead of user
in the fstab line.
...
nosuid Do not allow set-user-identifier or set-
group-identifier bits to take effect. (This
seems safe, but is in fact rather unsafe if
you have suidperl(1) installed.)
...
> Folks,
>
> How do I allow a user to mount a floppy/cdrom on a Linux box (RH 6.0)? I
> can see that in /etc/group there is a group called floppy, I put myself in
> that group, logged in again but I still can't mount the device.
>
>
> mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> mount: only root can do that
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Ben.
>
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