On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 9 Apr 2012 12:59:31 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> In the past I've gotten around this by having root mount the drive >> and then change ownership to mark:users once it's mounted. Linux >> remembers I've done that once and no longer requires me to do anything >> else as root. > > That's right, the root of the filesystem is now owned by mark. > >> Is that truly required or is there a way to give the user access to >> the top of the new mount point without roots' involvement? > > Not with a Linux filesystem[1][2], because the filesystem is owned by > root, so only root can change that. > > [1] This isn't strictly true as you can do it with ACLs, but that is far > more complex than simply chowning the root of the filesystem if that is > all you need. > > [2] With Windows filesystem, there are mount options to set the default > ownership, but that is a workaround for the differences between Linux and > Windows metadata. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > TROI : What am I sensing?? I'm sensing INCOMPETENCE, you pretentious > bald pseudo-French dickweed!
Thanks Neil. I guess that unless we figure out Canek's uid/gid options I'll stick with chown, etc. Cheers, Mark
