Subject: floppies and mortals
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/29/2001 16:02:18
  It used to be that I could do:
     mount /floppy 
  as myself and have it work. Now I get:

marajade-[~] mcr 1141 %mount /floppy
mount_msdos: /dev/fd0a on /floppy: Operation not permitted
zsh: 3126 exit 1     mount /floppy
marajade-[~] mcr 1142 %which mount_msdos
/sbin/mount_msdos
marajade-[~] mcr 1143 %ls -ld /floppy
drwxr-xr-x  2 mcr  wheel  512 Apr 28 16:07 /floppy/
marajade-[~] mcr 1144 %ls -ld /dev/fd0a
brw-r-----  1 mcr  operator  2, 0 Mar 21 13:39 /dev/fd0a
marajade-[~] mcr 1145 %ls -ld /dev/rfd0a
crw-r-----  1 mcr  operator  9, 0 May 13 23:30 /dev/rfd0a
marajade-[~] mcr 1146 %grep floppy /etc/fstab
/dev/fd0a /floppy msdos rw,noauto,nodev,nosuid 0 0
marajade-[~] mcr 1147 %ls -l /sbin/mount_msdos
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  247116 Sep 15  2000 /sbin/mount_msdos*
marajade-[~] mcr 1148 %uname -a
NetBSD marajade.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca 1.5.1_BETA NetBSD 1.5.1_BETA (XTERM) #0: Tue May  8 15:45:57 EDT 2001     mcr@istari.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca:/j/netbsd/obj/XTERM i386

  Can anyone suggest what is wrong?

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