FC6 mount ntfs-3g problem.

[Ian Malone]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> max bianco wrote:
>> 2008/4/2 Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com>:
>>>  I thought that it was listed in fstab with the user(s) option, the 
>>> way his
>>> is, that the mount command was run as root, as long as you ran "mount 
>>> <mount
>>> point>" or "mount <device>". On the other hand, using the format "mount
>>> <device> <mount point>" requires root permissions. But I have not used
>>> entries in /fstab for removable devices for a while - I use HAL instead.
>>>
>>>
>> I am not sure what his fstab should look like but as far as using the
>> mount command I have always found that you have to be root or have
>> permission explicitly granted. I plug in my external drive and it just
>> automounts for me, i don't remember doing anything special to get this
>> to work, but apparently this was not the case in FC6, i have never
>> used FC6. Hopefully he will  let us know what happened.
>>
>> Max
>>
> FC6 would auto mount as well. But if you have an entry in /etc/fstab for 
> the device, it will not get auto-mounted. In this case, he is using the 
> users option, so anyone should be able to mount it. (The fstab entry was 
> published earlier in the thread.) The difference between user and users 
> is that with users anyone can unmount, but with user, only the person 
> that mounted it can unmount.
> 

Robert McBroom pretty much has it covered from the mounting point of 
view: normally the users option given in fstab will let anyone mount the 
device (only root or the user who mounted it can then unmount it), 
however FUSE filesystems apparently need setuid style permissions to 
operate like this.

However I don't think anyone has addressed why the filesystem, once 
mounted by root, should be neither readable nor writeable by a normal 
user with the options specified by Charles Sullivan i.e.:
/dev/sda1  /simple  ntfs-3g noauto,users,rw,umask=0  0 0
in fstab.

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imalone