User access to write vfat partition?
Hey gang,
I want to temporarily allocate some disk space I have spare on my
/dev/hda1 partition (vfat)
and link it to a symbolic link in a users directory so he can upload
files. The setup
works fine if I create links for all the files manually, but if the
directory is empty and he
logs in and tries to upload he gets permission denied, because
apparently my /cdrive
mount point and the /dev/hda1 itself is set to user root group
root. These cannot (as far
as I have been able to figure out so far anyway) be modified with
the normal chown/chgrp
commands, so I am at a loss as to how to give a regular user write
permission via ftp
to this device. The contents of my fstab are as
follows:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type>
<options>
<dump> <pass>
/dev/hdb1
/
ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro
0 1
/dev/hdb2
none
swap
sw
0 0
proc
/proc proc
defaults
0 0
/dev/hdb3
/var
ext2
defaults
0 2
/dev/hdb5
/home ext2
defaults
0 2
/dev/hdb6
/usr
ext2
defaults
0 2
/dev/hda1
/cdrive vfat
defaults
0 2
In reading the mount man page I saw it was possible to allow users
to mount and unmount
a device, but nothing about permissions for reading, writing etc
depending on user group
or name.
Any suggestions would be most appreiciated,
Regards,
Todd
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