I can have root mount the floppy. But for the non root users, eventhough I did add "user" in /etc/fstab, non root users keep get error "cant create lock file /etc/mtab : permission denied (use -n flag to override) when I use -n flag, I get error "mount:must be superuser to use mount" I even tried givin all rights to users + others to /bin/mount, /etc/fstab, /etc/mtab + /mnt/floppy: Problem is still the same. Here's my entry for the floppy in /etc/fstab: dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 user 0 0 PS: the mounting point exists I tried: - adding "nosuid" in the 4th column => That wont solve the problem (even other options such as sync,nodev, unhide --- wont let other users mount) - even with "auto" in the file system field or trying file systems such as vfat,msdos => problem is the same. Redhat Linux 4.1 kernel 2.0.30

WOW!!! I didn't think anybody would still be using RedHat Linux 4.1 now! I remember using it many, many, many moons ago... Well, you have two options. You can either use sudo to allow any user to execute the mount command or you can add this line (one line) in your /etc/fstab /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 taurus