That much I knew, the problem I ran into was that the user is not allowed to use mount, even using sudo (I imagine it's coded into mount?).
How would I mount if I can't use mount? ;-P Curtis. -----Original Message----- From: Scott Zuk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 1:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: (clug-talk) [support] How to give users read-write access to mounted FAT32 partitions? Try using the mount options "defaults,user,noauto" (without quotes) to the mount line in your fstab. "noauto" prevents the partition from being mounted (by root) at boot time but "user" allows any user to mount/unmount the partition using the command line or more conveniently with a desktop shortcut. I think thats all the the options you need, take a look at man mount to see more. ~Scott On March 24, 2003 10:52 am, Curtis Sloan wrote: > Ah, very good. I see now. > > >It is limited to just one, how would you assign any file multiple > >owners? > > Well, I was viewing this functionality from an access paradigm, rather than > an ownership paradigm. It makes sense to me that the ability to mount (a > user "right", if you will) and the ability to access (user "permissions") > are mutually exclusive, although complementary, but I can see where there > may be inherent limitations in the way partitions can be mounted/accessed > (or the utilities used to do so have limitations, like mount -- "Only root > can do that."). Perhaps this will be expanded on in the future; but > really, if one is using a system for anything other than downlevel gaming > compatibility on a dual boot system with a teeny, tiny 10GB drive ;-), then > you'd use a real filesystem and manage access through normal file perms. > > Thanks for your help again. > > Curtis. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nathanael Noblet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 10:37 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 10:27 AM, Curtis Sloan wrote: > > <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? > > It is limited to just one, how would you assign any file multiple > owners? Doesn't work. It doesn't affect much the default settings, I'm > not sure what owner does so can't answer that. as well the rw option in > fstab, just allows the partition to be written to, meaning that if the > permissions of a file allow it to be written to, AND the partition is > mounted rw then the write will succeed.
