FC3 + SELinux and mounting floppy as user

[Michael Yep]

Writing to a floppy would be a security hole.  Thats why its not 
allowed.  SE Linux is for high security applications

At 03:49 PM 12/28/2004, you wrote:
>Hi. I've recently installed FC3 with the SE stuff enabled.
>This is the first time I've tried to use the floppy drive
>in my machine and I noticed that the floppy gets mounted
>to /media/floppy, but I can't put any files on it.
>I opened a console and su'd to root. Root can write files,
>everyone can read and execute files, but I couldn't chmod
>or chown anything on the floppy to allow a normal user
>to copy files to the disk.
>
>Am I right that this might be an SE Linux thing and I
>should go read up on that?
>
>Or is there something new in the kernel or fedora that
>I need to learn? [I had used RH 6.x several years ago
>and don't seem to remember having this kind of problem].
>
>TIA,
>Richard.
>
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Michael Yep
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