I've been using LinuxConfto set my fstab file up. It all mounts, without
problems. Even got the CD-burner to mount after working out it was sr0.
Trouble is, only root has write permissions to everything. 'steve' only has
read permissions to the vfat mounted partitons. I think I can get around
this buy mounting them with uid=500 and gid=500 in the mount options in
fstab. Hwever, suppose this was a "real" system, with say 10 other
group-id's. Only people in group 500 (my group) would then have write
access - yes? What about the guys in group 501 or 765?
There must be another way to permit all users, irrespective of group or
user id to write to these partitons, but I'll be buggered if I can find it!
Of course, I'm back at work now, so I can't just have a look! :(
Steve Flynn
IBM MVS Operations Analyst
Denis Havlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 16/02/2000 17:23:08
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Permissions to /mnt
:~>Someone else on the list is attempting to dothe same thing as myself.
:~>
:~>Basically, root has the ability to write files back to my DOS
partitions,
:~>whereas 'steve', my normal user does not.
This is a mount option for fat/vfat. You have to change it in /etc/fstab.
HINT: linuxconf is convenient for this task
cu
Denis
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