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On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Mon, 9 Apr 2012 12:59:31 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> In the past I've gotten around this by having root mount the drive |
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>> and then change ownership to mark:users once it's mounted. Linux |
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>> remembers I've done that once and no longer requires me to do anything |
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>> else as root. |
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> That's right, the root of the filesystem is now owned by mark. |
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>> Is that truly required or is there a way to give the user access to |
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>> the top of the new mount point without roots' involvement? |
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> Not with a Linux filesystem[1][2], because the filesystem is owned by |
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> root, so only root can change that. |
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> [1] This isn't strictly true as you can do it with ACLs, but that is far |
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> more complex than simply chowning the root of the filesystem if that is |
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> all you need. |
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> [2] With Windows filesystem, there are mount options to set the default |
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> ownership, but that is a workaround for the differences between Linux and |
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> Windows metadata. |
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> -- |
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> Neil Bothwick |
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> TROI : What am I sensing?? I'm sensing INCOMPETENCE, you pretentious |
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> bald pseudo-French dickweed! |
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Thanks Neil. I guess that unless we figure out Canek's uid/gid options |
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I'll stick with chown, etc. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |