On Wed, 24 May 2000 - Adam Talbot, you wrote:
| Hi. I've just setup Linux and I've got a user (me) that I want to
| give access to the dos partitions (/mnt/DOS_hda1...) but I can't seem to
| do that. I've tried changing the owner of these partitions (chgrp and
| chown) but it says I can't do that. I've also tried changing the access
| rights (chmod) but that doesn't work either.
| I was wondering how I can give a user write access to these
| partitions?
|
|
| Thanks,
|
| Adam.
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This may not be the best way, but what I did was create a new group perhaps
named "disk access" or "DOS-user". Then I changed the properties for the
/mnt/DOS* folders to belong to the new group (they still belong to the
"root" user). I then made myself a member of the new group. I also gave group
permission for read, write, and change into for each DOS folder. I also
created a user of the same name, then disabled loging in for this user as a
security measure. I did this in Mandrake 6.x and it worked well. I have not had
time to try it in Mandrake 7.x as yet. ymmv.
HTH,
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Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
