On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 02:21:31AM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: ... > You may also > > addgroup dos > grep dos /etc/group # say it is 123 > > Then put these options in /etc/fstab: > > rw,gid=123,umask=002,mode=770 > > For any $user that is allowed write access: > > adduser $user dos
or better don't add $user to group dos, but instead put a simple password on group dos and have any user that needs to write do: $ sg dos passwd $ do-whatever-needed-write-access-to-windows-partition $ exit or even better $ sg -c whatever-needed-write-access-to-windows-partition passwd This way it's easy to have the windows partition only writable for the duration of the one command that needed it, and fully write protected otherwise. The password thing in this case is not primarilly for securety reasons, it's there to make it possible for non-group members to become one temporarily. On the other hand, the part of not being a group member upon login *is* a securety measure. With this setup my kids can easily move their drawings to and from the windows partition [still needed for optimal printing results:(] and at the same time the windows partition is protected from most silly mistakes. They know to take special care when using the sg trick, as do I. -- groetjes, carel
