Re: [tlug] Mounting USB Drive

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

Quoth Godwin Stewart (Tue 2002-11-19 04:09:20PM +0100):
> On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 09:57:36 -0500, Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com> wrote
> to tlug@example.com:
> 
> > > It has to be done as root...
> > 
> > lsmod don't:
> 
> True. You just have to supply the path - unless you elect to have /sbin in
> your regular user's $PATH.
> 
> modprobe, OTOH, *does* need to be done as root.

Only if you want it to do anything. ;)

Seriously, you can use the -d, -l, and -n flags as a normal user.

The only reason that I mention this is that I am a big believer in doing as
root only what absolutely must be done as root.

When I want to sod around with modules, I usually do all of the preliminary
stuff as myself, and then run only the insmod | modprobe command as root.


-- 
Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>

Associate Systems Administrator
INCOGEN, Inc.
http://www.incogen.com/

GPG keyID 0x62386967 (7479 1A7A 46E6 041D 67AE  2546 A867 DBB1 6238 6967)
gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 62386967

Attachment: pgp00040.pgp
Description: PGP signature