On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 13:17 -0700, Robert Werch wrote: > Here's the deal: > > I'm running winblows xp and fc3 (sel targeted / permissive) on the same > laptop. I've formatted two of my xp partitions as vfat filesystems > (Documents, Music). I'd like a user group in FC3 to be able to read, > write, and execute on these partitions. The user group that I would > like to have access is called 'xp_access' and contains 2 users. I > created two mount points /windows/Documents and /windows/Music. Then I > modified /etc/fstab to automatically mount the partitions there, > respectivly. My problem is this... if I create the mount point as > root, it is owned by root, and therefore only accessable by root. I try > to change the assigned group to xp_access (with or without root being a > member of the group), and I get an error message saying 'Operation Not > Permitted' (I've tried it as root, sudo user, su user, graphically from > gnome and kde, and from a terminal in gnome and in kde.... to no > avail.) If I create the mount points as a user, they are owned by the > user... I have full access to the partitions as that user, but not as > the other user. I try to change group permissions and assignments of > the mount points (as root or as the user that created the mount points) > and I get the same error message... How can I not have permission to do > so??? I thought root could do anytihing.. and I thought the owner of > something could do anything with it.... I'm assuming user error (my > error) and a simple fix... Otherwise, I'm frustrated!!! > > In fstab I've tried different things in colume 4 (defaults, uid=500, > gid=503 (xp_access),w)... all to varying degrees of success. Like I > said, as root I can read, write, and execute in these partitions, but > the whole idea of linux is to not operate as root. I can get one user > to have full access automatically, but not other users when they log > in... Here is what my fstab file looks like right now: > > # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1 > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 > none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 > /dev/sda6 /windows/Documents vfat uid=500 0 0 Change this to something like /dev/sda6 /windows/Documents vfat users,uid=500,gid=500, 0 0 Then make sure both users are members of the same group (gid=500), and make sure the mount point has rwx permissions for the group. Either user then should be able to mount/unmount the filesystem and make any changes wanted.. > /dev/sda7 /windows/Music vfat uid=500 0 0 > /dev/hdb /media/cdrecorder auto > pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,ro,exec,noauto,managed > 0 0 > /dev/hda /media/cdrecorder1 auto > pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,ro,exec,noauto,managed > 0 0 > > > User 500 can do with the files what they want, and so can root... But, > user 501 can't... I've tried many things, and can't figure out what I'm > doing wrong.... suggesstions??? > > thanks for the help. newbie. >
