Re: Ownership of external usb hard drive
On 22 December 2011 17:09, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:26:04 +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>
>> I have an external usb hard drive that I use solely for storing backups
>> which are done every three hours of my home folder. It is 'owned' by
>> root, but I want to have the user boztu to have ownership of it so that
>> boztu can write to it from their cron backup program, but how do I do it
>> please?
>>
>> At the moment root writes to it at midnight and creates a new dated
>> folder, because only root has write access to it. Then every three hours
>> boztu writes to it and backs up the changes in the home folder, but I
>> want user boztu to do =all= of it including creating the new dated
>> folder.
>>
>> Does this make sense?
>
> Mmm, why don't you just...
>
> - Mount the USB disk to be user writeable (this can be set at "/etc/
> fstab"), and then
> - Use the user's crontab to run the task?
>
Very succinctly put, except the hard drive is automatically mounted by
Gnome, thats the only mistake you made.
Sharon.
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