Re: Ownership of external usb hard drive
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:28:45 +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> 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.
It wouldn't be if it were in fstab.
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