Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
max bianco wrote:
2008/4/2 Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
I thought that it was listed in fstab with the user(s) option, the
way his
is, that the mount command was run as root, as long as you ran "mount
<mount
point>" or "mount <device>". On the other hand, using the format "mount
<device> <mount point>" requires root permissions. But I have not used
entries in /fstab for removable devices for a while - I use HAL instead.
I am not sure what his fstab should look like but as far as using the
mount command I have always found that you have to be root or have
permission explicitly granted. I plug in my external drive and it just
automounts for me, i don't remember doing anything special to get this
to work, but apparently this was not the case in FC6, i have never
used FC6. Hopefully he will let us know what happened.
Max
FC6 would auto mount as well. But if you have an entry in /etc/fstab for
the device, it will not get auto-mounted. In this case, he is using the
users option, so anyone should be able to mount it. (The fstab entry was
published earlier in the thread.) The difference between user and users
is that with users anyone can unmount, but with user, only the person
that mounted it can unmount.
Robert McBroom pretty much has it covered from the mounting point of
view: normally the users option given in fstab will let anyone mount the
device (only root or the user who mounted it can then unmount it),
however FUSE filesystems apparently need setuid style permissions to
operate like this.
However I don't think anyone has addressed why the filesystem, once
mounted by root, should be neither readable nor writeable by a normal
user with the options specified by Charles Sullivan i.e.:
/dev/sda1 /simple ntfs-3g noauto,users,rw,umask=0 0 0
in fstab.
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imalone
