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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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