Hi there I can see from http://www.linux.org/apps/AppId_2476.html that you are the maintainers of the fine autofs package for Linux. I really like it and I have one question regarding mounting devices as an ordinary user. I would like to mount a device as the user foo so that foo owns the device (it is for a USB memory-stick device)
If I add this line to my /etc/fstab /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb auto noauto,owner,user,rw 0 0 then user foo can run "mount /mnt/usb" and likewise "umount /mnt/usb" and here foo has full ownership and read+write access over "/mnt/usb". Then I turn to autofs and like to have the same permissions for the user foo I start adding this to my "/etc/auto.misc" (Red Hat 7.2), usb -fstype=auto :/dev/sda1 I have an /etc/auto.master which sets up the auto-mount directory "/misc/" /misc /etc/auto.misc --timeout=5 Now I run into problems, since foo cannot write to "/misc/usb" $ ls -al /misc/usb drwxr-xr-w 2 root root CURRENT-DATE . I would really like to see the user could write $ ls -al /misc/usb drwxrwxrwx 2 root root CURRENT-DATE . or $ ls -al /misc/usb drwxr-xr-x 2 foo foo CURRENT-DATE . Any clues how to add this user-write access? If you solve it for me I will write an update note to the relevant HOWTO-documents. Best -- Peter Toft, Ph.D. [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] http://www.sslug.dk/~pto ******** W A R N I N G ! ************************************** Linux should not be used by those under the influence of MicroSoft. May cause dizziness or vertigo. Consult your tech support before using Linux. (note--after using Linux, you may notice extreme discomfort when using MicroSoft. Discontinue use of MicroSoft.) ************************************** W A R N I N G ! ********
