The floppy Group
If, for whatever reason, console access is not appropriate for you and
you need to give non-root users access to your system's diskette drive,
this can be done using the floppy group. Simply
add the user(s) to the floppy group using the tool
of your choice. Here is an example showing how
gpasswd can be used to add user fred to the
floppy group:
[root@bigdog root]# gpasswd -a fred floppy
Adding user fred to group floppy
[root@bigdog root]# |
Now, user fred will now be able to access the system's diskette drive
from the console.
