<GASP> That is so cool! I didna ken it. :-P Thanks, Nathan, I'll try that when I get home.
Let me take your answer one step further: can you specify multiple UIDs and corresponding UMASKs, or is it limited to just one? Also, does this option supersede or negate any other fstab options one might specify (such as owner, defaults, rw, etc.?) Thanks again, Curtis. BTW, you all knew this was so I could play Half-Life, didn't you? Or did I forget to mention that part? ;-) Oh, I'm sure it'll come in handy for other purposes, too. :-) -----Original Message----- From: Nathanael Noblet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 9:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: (clug-talk) [support] How to give users read-write access to moun ted FAT32 partitions? On Monday, March 24, 2003, at 07:43 AM, Curtis Sloan wrote: > The subject says it all. I have tried a number of different things > (modifications to fstab, sudo, etc.), but I think I'm simply barking > up the > wrong tree to get the job done. My understanding (at this point) is > that > the partition is being auto-mounted during startup, which is why it is > mounted as root (and hence read-only for users). I'm not sure where > to poke > around to change this, though. > > I want a regular user to have "normal", Windows-like read-write access > to > any FAT32 partitions, but to be a regular user in every other respect > -- > i.e. I don't want to make the user a member of the "root" group (an > example > only, I'm not sure if that's even right), if possible. > > Can anyone help me do this? > > Thanks, > Curtis. > > FTR (for the record), it's Slackware 9.0 (woohoo!) but that shouldn't > matter. This is basic *nix stuff (/me is shamed). > in fstab options column, put UID=XXX,UMASK=077 where XXX is a userid and UMASK is obviously the rwx mask you'd like it mounted with. -- Nathanael Noblet Gnat Solutions 4604 Monterey Ave NW Calgary, AB T3B 5K4 T/F 403.288.5360 C 403.809.5368 http://www.gnat.ca/
