Thanks a lot. Now it works if I'm myself or root. But I guess as soon as another user logs on (s)he doesn't have write permission again? Isn't there a way that I only mount the device once (i.e. as root) but everybody can use it (rwx)? -Matthias
"Stephen J. Gowdy" wrote: > Remove the "owner" and just do "mount /mnt/flash" as a user. > > On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Matthias Loeser wrote: > > > Hi, > > I added 'user' to fstab, rebooted and still don't have permission to mount the >device as > > user: > > > > This is the portion of my fstab file now: > > > > /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash auto noauto,owner,kudzu,user 0 0 > > /dev/sda1 /flash auto noauto,owner,kudzu,user 0 0 > > > > Then I mounted with > > mount -t vfat -O user /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash > > > > Back as normal user I get the message "mount: only root can do that" when trying to > > mount it. > > > > glab-pc3:75> pwd > > /mnt > > glab-pc3:75> ls -al | grep flash > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16384 Oct 29 19:10 flash > > > > Also I tried to change the permissions to rwx for everybody but even though the >command > > doesn't report any error msg it doesn't work. > > Am I missing something? > > Thanks, > > -Matthias > > > > > > "Stephen J. Gowdy" wrote: > > > > > If you mouted it as root then root is the owner. If you add "user" to the > > > fstab options then you can mount it as a user and write to it as a user. > > > > > > On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Matthias Loeser wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I mounted the SDDR-31 as /dev/sda1 using RedHat Linux: > > > > > > > > glab-pc3:51> mount | grep flash > > > > /dev/sda1 on /flash type vfat (rw) > > > > > > > > The access works fine as long as I'm logged in as root. Otherwise I can only >read > > > > from flash but not write - I always get a 'Permission denied' error. Anybody >knows > > > > how to fix that? > > > > Thanks, > > > > -Matthias > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > > > Welcome to geek heaven. > > > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: > > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ > > > |Stephen J. Gowdy | SLAC, MailStop 34, | > > > |http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~gowdy/ | 2575 Sand Hill Road, | > > > |http://calendar.yahoo.com/gowdy | Menlo Park CA 94025, USA | > > > |EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +1 650 926 3144 | > > > \------------------------------------+-------------------------/ > > > > -- > /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ > |Stephen J. Gowdy | SLAC, MailStop 34, | > |http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~gowdy/ | 2575 Sand Hill Road, | > |http://calendar.yahoo.com/gowdy | Menlo Park CA 94025, USA | > |EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +1 650 926 3144 | > \------------------------------------+-------------------------/ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
