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Greetings,

I have a question about mounting a floppy disk.

I wrote a script to mount a floppy disk, backup some files and then unmout 
the disk.  I added this to crontab for my regular user account.  When I am 
logged in to the machine locally the job runs fine.  When I am not logged 
in, I get an error message that tells me that only root can mount /dev/fd0 
on /mnt/floppy.

I also get this message when I am logged in remotely through ssh, whether 
attempting to mount the floppy drive via script or command line, unless I 
am logged in locally as the same user that I am remotely logged in as.

I would assume that I could add the job to root's crontab and it would run 
all the time without error.  I'm just wondering where I can look for an 
explanation of this behavior.  I have read the mount and cron man pages, 
but didn't find anything about permissions or how they run together.  
Where would I look for how/why this works like it does?  

Thanks for your help,

Greg
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