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trumee
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 Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2004 10:59 am Post subject: Restricting access to partitions to certain users only? |
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Hi,
I have a couple of partitions which contains sensitive data which i myself want to access alone. Currently the partition is mounted as
"/dev/hda3 /mnt/ddrive vfat quiet,umask=0 0 0" in fstab so that everybody can see them. Is it possible to deny access to this partition to everybody except me and root?
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chtof
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| Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2004 12:21 pm Post subject: |
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Root can access everywhere on your system then there is no problem. To allow you to access this part, just change your fstab file as follow :
| Code: | | /dev/hda3 /mnt/ddrive vfat quiet,uid=1000,umask=077 |
uid is ths uid of your user. To know what is your UID, have a look in /etc/passwd file or do id when you are connected with this user.[/code] |
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trumee
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| Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2004 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks a lot, this work great |
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