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From: ns@csd.cri.dk (Nick Sandru)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Problems with DOSDIR, DOSREAD, and DOSWRITE
Message-ID: <57144@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Date: 25 Jun 91 15:06:42 GMT
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In info-minix you write:

[... stuff on DOSXXX not working]

>Check the permissions/owner on /dev/fd0 etc.

>If the owner is bin or root and the permissions are set to -rw------,
>there's your problem. Do:-

>	chmod 666 /dev/fd?

>to allow "world" to read/write.

The problem is that I share the system with a couple of friends, who don't
have too much Unix knowledge. So I preferred to maintain the restricted
permissions and make DOSXXX setuid root, in order to avoid possible
disasters (/dev/hd1 is an MS-DOS partition).

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