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tebers
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 Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2003 9:41 am Post subject: How to change group owner of partitions ? |
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psp
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2003 12:00 pm Post subject: |
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Not the most informative posting... 
I presume you want to change the default permissions of a mounted disk partition?
The default mount options is to mount a partition with the option "nouser" which forbids an ordinary user to mount the filesystem.
You can change this by modifying the mount options in the /etc/fstab file. For example to add permission for all your users to read and write to files on the floppy disk you should change the line in /etc/fstab from:
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/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat noauto 0 0
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/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat noauto,users 0 0
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See the mount manpage for more details...(search for -o)
Hope this helps... |
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tebers
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2003 12:13 pm Post subject: |
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well somehow you are right 
no i like to get acces to the /dev/hda5 for vmware and the owner is listed as root and group as well as root.
I like to get access now for this. I suppose because /dev/hda5 is rw------
i cannot access it even if i am memebr of root-group.
I like to have my partions member of disk-group and allowing members access to them. |
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Zu`
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2003 12:14 pm Post subject: |
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See the mount manpage for more details...(search for -o)
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That should be all the information he/she needs to know, but IIRC there's an option uid and gid, which can be set to specify userid and/or groupid, respectively. That way you can allow all the users in say, group 1001, to access a certain mounted partition.
I would check the man page myself to verify, but I'm not working in Gentoo/Linux at this very moment.
Hope that helps.
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tebers
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the options in fsta allows only to mount and dismount these partitions.
Because i like use a dedicated partition (ntfs) with vmwarethey cannot and should not be mounted with linux. I think the solution is something with devfs ?? |
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psp
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2003 12:44 pm Post subject: |
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Ahh... I see your problem...
Yes, the problem/solution is indeed with devfsd. You should be able to solve it using adding your own file to /etc/devfs.d:
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# This is the /etc/devfs.d/hda5.conf file.
REGISTER ^ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 PERMISSIONS root.disk 0660
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This should change the permissions to root:disk 0660 on the partition you want.
Give devfsd a HUP or USR1 signal for it to re-read the config file for the changes to take effect. Please see the defsd manpage for more options.
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flurix
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2003 12:46 pm Post subject: |
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no i like to get acces to the /dev/hda5 for vmware and the owner is listed as root and group as well as root.
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I don't really know how vmware works, but it seems like you need to change the
permissions of device special files. Asuming you have a group named 'vmware' and
want to give it r/w access to /dev/hda5, do this as root:
# chgrp vmware /dev/hda5
# chmod g+rw /dev/hda5
This should be enough (at least if some program/script/library does not
change the permissions back) |
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