NAME

       jazip - X tool to easily mount and unmount Iomega Zip and/or Jaz drives.

SYNOPSIS

       jazip [SCSI device] [-display host:dpy] [-visual visual] [-depth depth] [-private]

DESCRIPTION

       jazip  is a program for maintaing your Iomega Zip and/or Jaz drive(s) and disks under Linux. This program
       combines Grant Guenther's original command line utility, ziptool,  with  Jaz  drive  support,  a  nice  X
       interface  and  additional  utilities to allow users to easily mount and unmount disks.  The interface is
       based on version 0.88 of the XForms library.

OPTIONS

       The optional SCSI device command line parameter specifies the raw scsi device name of one of  the  drives
       with an entry in /etc/jazip.conf.  If no SCSI device is specified on the command line, jazip will use the
       first  entry of /etc/jazip.conf by default.  This allows you to add a different line in the configuration
       file for each drive you own, and then invoke jazip with the name of the device for  the  drive  you  want
       jazip to use.

       Note  that  the  SCSI device argument does not contain a partition number.  jazip auto-detects partitions
       and mounts the first one it encounters.

       jazip is built with the XForms Graphical User Interface Toolkit for X, and hence  supports  a  number  of
       flags which are interpreted by XForms:

       -display host:dpy
              defines the X display.

       -visual class
              TrueColor, PseudoColor etc...

       -depth d
              visual depth in bits

       -private
              forces a private colormap.

       -shared
              forces a shared colormap.

       -stdcmap
              forces a standard colormap.

FEATURES

   Mounting/Unmounting of Disks:
       The  program  allows  non-root  users to securely mount/unmount disks.  Disks are mounted with the nosuid
       flag to increase security.  The type of disk should be detected automagically by  reading  its  partition
       table.  Only the first disk partition encountered will be mounted by jaZip.

   Write Protection/De-Write Protection:
       The  program  allows  non-root  users  to control the disk's software write protection feature.  Password
       protection is not currently supported.

   Ejection of Media:
       Any questions?

   Disk Information:
       Keeps you informed about the current disk's protection and mount status.

   Other information:
       Once the program is running, see the online help (under  the  help  menu)  for  further  information  and
       instructions.

USER ACCESS TO JAZIP

       On  Debian  systems,  jazip is installed suid to root, and sgid to floppy.  Access to jazip is limited to
       users in the floppy group.  To add user joe to group floppy , run the following command as root

       # adduser joe floppy

   What about non-Debian systems?
       You may change permission and group ownership of the jazip executable like so:

       # chown root:floppy /usr/bin/jazip

       # chmod 4754 /usr/bin/jazip

       to yield

       # ls -l /usr/bin/jazip

       -rwsr-xr-- 1 root jazip 147340 May 18 15:04 /usr/bin/jazip

OWNERSHIP AND PERMISSIONS OF MOUNT POINTS

       This is what is suggested

       # chmod 1771 /zip

       to yield

       drwxrwx--t 3 root floppy 1024 May 21 10:58 /zip

       Only members of the floppy group can read it, all floppy group members can write to it at any  time,  but
       can't  overwrite  other  user's  files.  This only matters for ext2 formatted disks because jazip's mount
       changes ownwership of the mount for vfat formatted disks: whoever uses jazip to mount the disk  owns  the
       files.  No other user can write to the disk.

KNOWN LIMITATIONS

   Starting the program:
       There  needs  to  be a disk in the drive in order to start the program.  If you start jazip from a window
       manager menu without a disk in the drive, it will fail silently because you will never see the text error
       message.

   Partitioning your disks:
       Since Zip and Jaz are removable media technologies, it is assumed that each disk will  contain  just  one
       partition.   This is less likely to be desireable if you are a Jaz user with 1G or 2G disks.  In order to
       easily support autodetection of disk types, I don't see a way around this restriction.

   Unmounting disks to access some features:
       Currently, to use the lock and unlock features, the disk must be unmounted.

CONFIGURATION FILE

       jazip uses the file /etc/jazip.conf to map the raw SCSI device name of the drive you wish to use onto its
       mount point.  If you have more than one drive on your system, you can create  a  separate  entry  in  the
       configuration file for each one, and then specify the raw device name of the drive you want to use on the
       command  line  when you invoke jazip.  If no device name is given on the command line, jazip will use the
       settings in the first entry of /etc/jazip.conf by default.

       The format  of  the  jazip.conf  file  should  be  mostly  self-explanatory.   The  first  entry  of  the
       configuration  file  is  the raw SCSI device name of your drive (e.g. /dev/sda).  The second entry is the
       mount point you wish to use (e.g. /zip).   The  additional  entries  are  required,  but  are  not  user-
       changeable.   See  the  jazipconfig(8) man page for specifics.  See the jazipconfig command to create the
       /etc/jazip.conf configuration file.

SEE ALSO

       jazip.conf(5), jazipconfig(8)

AUTHOR

       jazip Copyright (c) 1996  Jarrod A. Smith

       This manual page by Peter S Galbraith <psg@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may  be  used
       by others).

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