Re: fstab Mystery

[Kevin McKinley <ronin2@bellatlantic.net>]

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 19:09:12 -0500
Joel Konkle-Parker <jjk3@msstate.edu> wrote:

> If I'm not mistaken, uid and gid need actual user and group ID numbers, 
> not names. So your line would be:
> 
> "/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs,ro,noauto,users,exec,uid=1000,gid=1000  0 0"
> 
> if "1000" is the ID of "mark".

If you specify a user or group I believe it must be using IDs. The idea of
"users" is that any user can mount the device, so I don't believe it's
necessary to specify them at all.

I don't have user or group IDs [in fstab] and my system works fine.

Kevin