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> As near as I can tell, arguments with respect to
> "persistent device ownership" are fluff. I have
> yet to see one detailed. Sure, I _could_ change
> the ownership of /dev/fd0 so that a given group
> of users can access it directly. I can also give
> that group of users permission to access mtools
> through sudo to manage floppies.
"sudo mdir a:" is exactly as easy to use as "mdir a:". Dunno if something
like "sudo mcopy a:somepkg.tar.gz - | tar zxvf -" works, perhaps it does.
Also has the quite interesting side effect that "sudo mcopy /etc/shadow a:"
does work fine.
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