On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 18:30, Phil Schaffner wrote: > On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 18:05 -0500, Mingzhai Sun wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > I mounted my windows partition as /mnt/d, and /mnt/e. But it seems only the > > root user can write on these partitions. I want to give some > > other users the permission to write, but I can not do that. Do you guys know > > how to do that. > > NTFS or VFAT? NTFS needs a custom kernel or 3rd party module. > :-( He said root can access it but other users cannot. Hardly seems a module/driver issue. > >From recent thread "Pbs of disk access"... > > On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 21:09 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > Am Mi, den 23.06.2004 schrieb Eric Tanguy um 20:30: > > > > > I mount a vfat disk during the boot process with this line in /etc/fstab > > > : > > > /dev/sda1 /mnt/storex vfat users 0 0 > > > The problem is that i can't access it in rw mode as user. I think i's a > > > normal security issue but if i remember is is possible possible to > > > enable it in rw mode for user using umask= but i can't remember and > > > refind it. Could we help me ? > > > Thanxes > > > Eric > > > > man mount --> vfat filesystem part > > > > "umask=002" to allow write permission everyone > > > > Alexander > > Phil > >
