User Problems

newky2000 · n00b Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 36

Hi I'm havin a few problems

When I create a new user(including them in user,audio,wheel groups) i find that I can't do the following:

1)access my hardrives, including the window ntfs ones(which work in root)
2)play dvd's in xine
3)access any drives though konqueror that I mount with su.

Can you please help as I'm getting fed up of logging in everytime I boot the computer and having to run in root just to get it all to work.

Thanks

Hysteric · n00b Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Posts: 46 Location: Québec

There should be a group that permit the user to access the drives, but I can't tell you which one... you should look for that group tho...

rac · Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2003 7:15 pm Post subject:

The answer to this depends on the filesystem types. For Windowsy things, see UN2: Mounting MS Windows partitions (FAT,NTFS). For others, mount the filesystem and then use chown/chmod on the mount point.
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Delphiki · Guru Joined: 04 Oct 2002 Posts: 337 Location: A2

if you add the user flag in fstab, i.e.

/dev/sda2 /mnt/ipod vfat users 0 0

then you can mount them with any user, so you don't need to su to mount them, though if you mount them as root normal users won't have access. This is what I do for my cdrw, dvd and ipod.
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newky2000 · n00b Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 36

will this work even if the "/mnt/" folder is root only?

Delphiki · Guru Joined: 04 Oct 2002 Posts: 337 Location: A2

Users have to have x bit set on /mnt, but they don't need write access to /mnt.
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newky2000 · n00b Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 36

I tried this but mount complained of errors in the /etc/fstab

Delphiki · Guru Joined: 04 Oct 2002 Posts: 337 Location: A2

What was the line you had in fstab?
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newky2000 · n00b Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 36

I'm new to linux and am finding this a bit hard going.

I'm mounting /dev/hda1 to /mnt/win2k.

I've tried mounting it to a new folder that I created in the home folder of one of the users but it then showed a lock and said I didn't have enough permissions to access it.

I'd like just to automatically boot into root(I know the implications of this) but kde login manager will not allow me to select root for autologin.

Delphiki · Guru Joined: 04 Oct 2002 Posts: 337 Location: A2

Read the thread that rac posted to learn how to mount an ntfs partition. If it's a vfat partition you should be able to just moutn it using the line I posted except changing /mnt/ipod to wherever you want it and changing /dev/sda2 to /dev/hda1.
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20097

Moved from Desktop Environments.
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newky2000 · n00b Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 36

I've now made it so that I can look at mounted devices now as a non-root user but I can't umount or remount them. It says only "root can mount XXX" This makes ejecting cd's a pain in the arse.

Any ideas?

fifo · Guru Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Posts: 437

If you put the "user" option in your fstab then ordinary users should be able to mount/umount (though not remount):

newky2000 · n00b Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 36

brilliant , thanks