mounting floppy in read/write mode by user (mystery remains)

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 11:19:03PM -0500, Jeff Vian wrote:
> > 5) Just to make sure it does work with the original
> > fstab setting I changed back my fstab back to
> > -----------------------------
> > /dev/fd0  /media/floppy  auto
> > pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
> > --------------------------------
> > 6) reboot fedora
> > It still works without problem.
> > 
> This is normal behavior.
> 
> 
	I also thought that was the normal behavior until 2/3 of our
	50 lab machines refused to mount floppies as a normal user.
	Although their error was different. It said that it could not
	recognize the format of the floppy.
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