This is the README file for the userfloppy package for Linux
Date: 28-Jun-94
Version: 0.2
Author: Peter Orbaek <poe@daimi.aau.dk>
        Romano Giannetti <romano@sensores2.fis.ucm.es>

Changes from 0.1 to 0.2
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Stupid bug fix. Thanks to Samson H. Lee <shl0@Lehigh.EDU>

Quick installation guide
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Edit the #define FDFORMAT in userfdformat.c to specify your full path 
to fdformat.

	make

It builds cleanly with gcc-2.5.8 and Linux 1.1.18 (libc 4.5.21)

And optionally as root (CHECK the Makefile first!):

	make install-man
	make install


Description
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This package permits users to have a full access to floppy
disks. (And, but I cannot test it, cdrom and similar). 

First, usermount and userumount allow user to mount their disks when 
authorized by the system manager. The main difference between this
mount and the old usermount is that the superuser can specify more
than one entry for the pair device/directory in the authorization
file, with different type. If the /etc/ufstab look like the one in the
dist, users can mount /dev/fd0 on /floppy with types msdos,minix,ext2,
umsdos. the /floppy dir is chown()ed to the user if the mount was
successful. 

The userfdformat is simply a wrapper that call fdformat allowing to
normal users to low level format floppy where they have write
permissions. 

  
