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synapticsponge
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 Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 9:41 pm Post subject: Problems getting regular users access to partitions |
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Hi,
I've got a second hard drive in my system from a former windows computer. I ran cfdisk on it and found the two partitions on it to be hdb2 and hdb5. Did a little asking, a little reading, and added the following two lines to my fstab:
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/dev/hdb5 /mnt/win_c vfat defaults,users,rw,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdb2 /mnt/win_d vfat defaults,users,rw,noauto 0 0
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So, first problem is I still can't get any regular user accounts to mount the partitions. Second, when I mount it via root (mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt/win_d), regular users still don't have access to the partition.
Did I do something wrong with fstab or am I totally off base with how to get my regular user account access to these partitions?
Thanks for any help. |
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ectospasm
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| Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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You probably need to add a umask option to those lines. On my vfat partition, I have this line:
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The umask flag the way I have it set will give the partition the permissions 0777 (-rwxrwxrwx). This may or may not be what you want. To give it permissions of 0755 (-rwxr-xr-x), give it a umask of 022. The umask is the bit mask of the permissions which are not present.
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synapticsponge
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| Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks for your help. Your fix worked perfectly. |
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