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On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> This has long been a sort of hack area of me in terms of sys admin |
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> at home - giving a user account access to the top of a new external |
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> drive. I'd like to learn to do this right. Maybe someone can set me |
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> straight about what root needs to do to make this work. |
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> |
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> OK, so as root I partition & format the USB drive to get it ready, |
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> and then I modify fstab with the following addition: |
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> c2stable ~ # cat /etc/fstab | grep VideoLib |
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> LABEL=VideoLib /mnt/VideoLib ext3 |
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> auto,rw,users 0 0 |
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> c2stable ~ # |
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> |
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> Having done that, as well as making the /mnt/VideoLib mount point, |
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> my user account can now mount & umount the drive: |
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> |
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> mark@c2stable ~ $ mount /mnt/VideoLib/ |
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> mark@c2stable ~ $ df -h | grep VideoLib |
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> /dev/sdf1 458G 199M 435G 1% /mnt/VideoLib |
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> mark@c2stable ~ $ umount /mnt/VideoLib/ |
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> mark@c2stable ~ $ df -h | grep VideoLib |
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> mark@c2stable ~ $ |
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> |
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> The problem is that at this point my user account cannot create a |
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> new directory on that drive: |
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> mark@c2stable ~ $ mount /mnt/VideoLib/ |
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> mark@c2stable ~ $ df -h | grep VideoLib |
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> /dev/sdf1 458G 199M 435G 1% /mnt/VideoLib |
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> mark@c2stable ~ $ mkdir /mnt/VideoLib/Video |
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> mkdir: cannot create directory `/mnt/VideoLib/Video': Permission denied |
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> mark@c2stable ~ $ |
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> |
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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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> 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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Have you tried: |
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# cat /etc/fstab | grep VideoLib |
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LABEL=VideoLib /mnt/VideoLib ext3 |
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auto,rw,users,uid=X,gid=Y 0 0 |
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where X is mark's user id, and Y is users' group id? |
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On the other hand, do you use a desktop environment? Because GNOME |
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does everything you want for you, and I suppose KDE does the same. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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