USERS WRITING TO PARTITIONS?

[Aaron Howell]

Hi there,
The problem with this solution is that _anyone_ can write to your fat partition then.
That's ok on a home box where you are the only user, but its not so good on a family/multiuser box.
Better to use the uid= and gid= options which allow you to have tighter control over who can do what on the partition.
Regards
Aaron
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 05:13:24AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> I will include one typical vfat entry I have my system to enable me to
> write to my windows dirs.  I honestly can't remember the meaning of
> the last two variables on the line but this works for me.  I think the
> umask is what enables normal users to write files without permission
> problems.
> /dev/hda1      /hda1       vfat     defaults,umask=000  1    0
> /dev/hdc1      /hdc1       vfat     defaults,umask=000  1    0
> /dev/cdrom     /cdrom      iso9660  user,noauto,ro,unhide 0   0
> 
> Guess I'm gonna have to pay another visit to the man pages for mount
> and fstab:)
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 07:19:33AM -0230, Doug Lawlor wrote:
> > Hello list, I need to know how to let a user besides 'root' write to a
> > partition.  I've tried everything I know and it's not working here.  A
> > line from my 'fstab' file is below.  
> > 
> > /dev/hdc4       /var/music      ext2    users   1   1
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,  
> > Doug
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Doug Lawlor <dlawlor at roadrunner.nf.net>
> > 
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