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On Monday 26 February 2007, Chris wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I have a dual boot windows / Gentoo system. I have my NTFS (windows) |
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> main partition listed in fstab with "user,noauto,nosuid, noatime". A |
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> normal user can mount and umount it, but cannot change directories, |
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> look at files, etc. as they'll get a permission denied error. When I |
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> list the files and dirs, they all show up as belonging to |
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> "root:root", with no access for group and others. |
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> My question is: Is there a way to allow normal users to at least |
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> read these files and change dirs, short of chown and/or chmod on the |
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> NTFS partition? |
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ntfs does not understand unix permissions, so there is no concept of a |
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unix owner and group. You use the uid and gid options to fudge one - |
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normally root:root is ok. |
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Then to set permissions, use the umask option. 0555 should be OK - |
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read/execute for all. It must be 5 otherwise you can't cd into a |
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directory. |
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Actually you want fmask and dmask options like as in vfat, but mount -t |
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ntfs doesn't support that, so you have to make do with umask. |
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alan |
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Optimists say the glass is half full, |
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Pessimists say the glass is half empty, |
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Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za |
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+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five |
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