Re: Accessing vfat fs as normal user
I've always had problems with writing to vfat as a normal user no matter what
distro or computer. Just one of the down sides of a file system that doens't
do file permissions.
As I'm the only user on my computer I just mount it using the suid and guid
options in the fstab. But if several users were to need to access it then I
would create a ground, add users to that group and then use the guid of that
group when mounting.
Of course if you have many users this may be a bit of a pain to do and adding
new users would need it doing each time. But a simple changing of the new
users command/script (not sure which) should make this much easier.
Just my 0.02.
Craig
On Saturday 03 May 2003 9:10 am, Don Nash wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > After forgetting to rewrite my /etc/apt/sources.list, I then did an
> > apt-get upgrade and wound up with the unstable distribution.
> > Now I can't seem to access any of my dos partitions as user, only as
> > root. I have tried changing permissions as root using chmod for
> > these partitions with no luck. I have no problem accessing my native
> > linux partitions. Not shown in the fstab is my firewire drive , which
>
> I
>
> > manually mount as /dev/sdb -t vfat /firewire. I cannot access this
>
> as
>
> > a normal user either, only as root. I have read the various mans for
> > chmod,chown, setuid, setfsuid,update-passwd and have scoured the
> > newsgroups and debian mailing lists for similar problems, to no avail.
> >
> > Attached is a copy of my fstab. Aside from this relatively minor
> > problem, which I'm sure is the result of something dumb I did, the
> > distro runs pretty smoothly. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Don Nash
> >
> > # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump>
>
> <pass>
>
> > /dev/hda3 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0
>
> 1
>
> > /dev/hdb3 /mnt/linux3 ext2 defaults 0
>
> 0
>
> > /dev/hdb5 /mnt/linux5 ext2 defaults 0
>
> 0
>
> > /dev/hdb6 /mnt/linux6 ext2 defaults 0
>
> 0
>
> > /dev/hdb4 none swap sw 0
>
> 0
>
> > /dev/hda5 /dos3 vfat
>
> user,rw,noauto,umask=000 0 0
>
> > /dev/hda12 /dos2 vfat user,rw,noauto 0
>
> 0
>
> > proc /proc proc defaults 0
>
> 0
>
> > /dev/hdd /cdrom2 auto user,noauto 0
>
> 0
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