On 12 August 2005 16:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> i've found that i could not access the mounted
> directory with non-root users.
> 1. i "chown" directories under "/mnt" to the user,
>    but so long as i mount, the permission of the
>    specific dir will be changed to "drwx------" and
>    owner changed to root automatically.
> 2. i try to use a mount option "users",
>    $> mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/win -o rw,users
>    no luck somehow as well.
> 3. i would not use "sudo" to do this, i believe there is
>    a way to solve the problem. and not sure "sudo" will work.

What filesystem is on hda6? Does it know anything about ownership and 
permissions?

If not (like FAT) you need something like "mount -o 
uid=youruser,gid=users,umask=0777" 

Uwe

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