brsmith@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (Brian R. Smith) (09/17/89)
We (U of MN Computer Science) just got 12 SparcStation 1's, all with floppy drives. I read through the documentation - what I could anyhow - and I couldn't find any mention of HOW to use them as Unix filesystems. Is there any? (Somehow, the concept of using a floppy as a tape offends me deep down inside...) Anyhow, after some guidance from a Sun Wiz, I've seen it work. Just fdformat, newfs, and mount. But what if you don't have root perms? You can't do the mount. I spent this afternoon banging together a suid-root program that will do the mount for our normal users. It takes care of checking the read/write status of the drive, fsck'ing the disk, and finally mounting it nosuid. There may be a security hole or two that I've missed, so I'd be interested in seeing anyone else's attempts. (On the other hand, if you want the source to mine, drop me a line.) Brian