"Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D." wrote:
> After using Linux for about five years now I finally have to throw myself
> on the mercy of the group. I am at a complete loss as how to use
> permissions. I am currently running Mandrake/Venus.
>
> As root I have added a new user, smolnar, and made him a member of the
> group users in /etc/group:
>
> users::100:smolnar
>
> When I do a listing of / I find that most of the subdirectories are
> accessable, however some are not. For example I have an entry:
>
> msdos drwx------ root root 1024 19:43 09.12.1999
>
> If I understand 'Linux: Getting Started' correctly, the directory msdos
> belongs to root and may be accessed by root and no one else.
>
> I want to give access to msdos to the new user, smolnar.. What command(s)
> do I issue, and what is the syntax, while logged in as su?
>
> Thanks in advance.
Well, if you want to do it properly, use linuxconf and set up the dos options
of the mount to allow a user to access it.
Doing it with chown, chgrp, and chmod doesn't seem to be very easy. I went
through a lot of permutations without finding one that worked. The mount
options specified in linuxconf changed that.
That is assuming /msdos is what I suspect it to be, the mount for the windows or dos
partitions on your system.
Civileme
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