> 
> > Although I guess that mtools itself won't work on the RPC, is there any
> > chance of getting a similar thing to work? In fact, just the mcopy and
> > mdir commands would be very handy. I don't want to have to su every time
> > I need to get at the floppy, (mount seems to need su privilages).
> 
> While getting mtools to work with RiscBSD shouldn't be too hard (it might
> have been ported already?), there is no need for root priviledges to do a mount.
I did mtools a while back, and there was a set lying around somewhere,
which has probablly gone astray.  There wern't any non-trivaial problems
but there was a bug, which I forwarded to the author.

> All you need i
> 
> 	1. access to the medium to be mounted with the appropriate
> 	priviledge, i.e. read access if you want to mount read-only,
> 	read and write access if you want a normal mount.
> 
> 	2. ownership of the directory you want to mount on.
> 
> Some filesystems may further restrict the ability to mount, like e.g. ffs
> in case you want the kernel to honour setuid bits or devices. But for
> mounting a msdosfs filesystem, you don't need any further priviledges.
> 
> Hope it helps,
> Wolfgang
> --
> ws@TooLs.DE     (Wolfgang Solfrank, TooLs GmbH) 	+49-228-985800
> 

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