On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 08:23:20AM -0500, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 07:37:11PM -0700, Scott Talbot wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 16:05, 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. > > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > Mingzhai Sun > > > > In the /etc/fstab file ensure the keyword "users" is among the list in > > the 4th column. This allows non root to mount the partition, and gives > > them ownership. > > > > Scott > The question is how to let users write to a mounted partition. users > is not the answer. I suspect the permissions on either the mount or > the permissions on the directory they are mounted on will give us the > answer. > -- groupadd winwriters for user in mim eli do usermod -G winwriters $user done And add the option gid=numerical_group_id,umask=002 to the line in /etc/fstab for the windows partition. For pen or floppies, the option user/owner is enough and mount will use the user's uid. Regards, Luciano Rocha
