i want all my users to be able to write to the drive, without it being a huge 
security risk

mark


On Sunday 13 January 2002 11:38 am, you wrote:
> how about giving your user root permitions ?
> that way you will be the only one that can make changes to that partition,
> and it will be safe from other users.. (they will have (ro) )
>
> > I have an extra ide harddrive which needs to be shared between windows
> > and linux.  It's formated using fat cause windows blows and won't read
> > anything else.  I can read from this drive just fine, but my question is,
> > is there anyway to mount this drive (/dev/hdd1) on boot with permissions
> > so everyone in linux can write to it?  I hate having to switch to root to
> > write to this drive.  I know that the reason this is done is for security
> > (so you don't accidently have one of your linux users delete your whole
> > windows drive :), but windows isn't on this drive.  any ideas?
> >
> > mark

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