fstab user root - read-write-permission

[Falko Jeske]

This is my fstab

# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
LABEL=/                     /                           ext3        
defaults            1 1
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/hda7                    swap                       swap    
defaults        0 0
/dev/hdc                    /media/cdrecorder     auto   
/dev/hda5                /home/falko/win            vfat    defaults    0 0
/dev/hda6                /home/falko/win2          vfat    defaults    0 0
pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,ro,exec,noauto,managed 
0 0




what exactly i need to do? I am a little bit confusing about the answers.

Thanks.

Falko


Scott Talbot wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 16:57 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote:
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>>On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 23:13 +0100, Falko Jeske wrote:
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>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>i know, i ask a lot, but i am just a newbee.
>>>
>>>The problem now:
>>>
>>>I have two fat32 partitions. There are mounted via fstab. Only the root 
>>>can read an write. I would like to give me (as no root  - account) the 
>>>right for read and write (that means for all operations) for all folders 
>>>in the mounted fat32-partitions. How?
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>There are a couple of options.
>>
>>If you are the only user, then:
>>   in the fstab entry for those partitions add the options
>>"UID=XXX,GID=YYY"  where XXX and YYY are your user id and group id.
>>    
>>
>	This will work, however; using umask=000 together with the users option
>allows all users to mount, unmount read and write.  This becomes
>important when other users need the permissions.  If you are unfamiliar
>with umask, you should look in man fstab or man umask.  The UID, would
>only give you permission, the GID is a good option if you need a
>partition to be accessed by only a particular group though.
>
>Scott
>
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>>This will always mount the partition with you as the owner and group.
>>
>>If you are not the only user and want each user to have the same access
>>then:
>>   1) In the fstab entry add the options "user", and "noauto".
>>   2) In the users login script (.bash_profile or equivalent) add a line
>>that mounts the partitions for that user, and in the logout script
>>(.bash_logout) put another line that unmounts the same partitions.
>>   This should make it so that each user can access the fat32 partitions
>>whenever they log in. It does, however, mean that only one user can
>>access it at a time.
>>
>>I have not tried it, but it would seem that having the mount point set
>>at mode 777 may give access as well.
>>
>>HTH, and man fstab for more options.
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Falko
>>>
>>>BTW: MP3 works fine with xmms, the WLAN is a little bit tricky, but i 
>>>will work it out.
>>>
>>>      
>>>
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