mount problem
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Fri Jan 26 15:14:53 UTC 2007
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 15:02 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 26 January 2007 14:37, T. Horsnell wrote:
> > >I have a partition for holding temporary large files, which fstab causes
> > > to be mounted as ro for user. I tried changing fstab as so:
> > >
> > >LABEL=/mnt/Holding /mnt/Holding ext3 user,rw 1
> > > 2
> > >
> > >saved, then
> > >
> > >mount -a
> > >
> > >ls -l /mnt/
> > >total 24
> > >drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Feb 25 2006 FC4home
> > >drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Nov 1 10:38 FC4root
> > >drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jan 25 19:10 Holding
> > >
> > >ls -l /mnt/Holding
> > >total 40
> > >drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 26 11:17 Egypt
> > >drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Nov 1 10:45 lost+found
> > >drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 18 2006 MickyAndy
> > >drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 11 13:45 RomanticRoad2
> > >
> > >I do need to be able to utilise space in these directories. What am I
> > >missing?
> >
> > If your problem is that the directories are still owned by root,
> > then simply changing from user,ro to user,rw wont fix that.
> >
> > ro/rw affects the writeablity at the device level, not at the
> > per-user level. It wont change ownership of the directories
> > on the device.
> >
> > What did you hope would happen? Did you want the directories
> > to become owned by the user who mounted the device?
> >
> I simply want users to be able to write to those directories. I hate having
> to do things as root when it isn't necessary or advisable for security.
> The /mnt/Holding one is the vital one. That was deliberately set up with
> huge amounts of space for this purpose.
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you might want to consider doing things like this...
if all 'users' are members of 'users' group
chgrp users /mnt/Holding -R
chmod g+s /mnt/Holding -R
chmod g+w /mnt/Holding -R
bear in mind that users with a default umask of 022 will create files
with a 644 and folders with 755 permissions which means that other users
will not be able to 'write' into those directories or over those files.
Craig
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