Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab
What do you mean by "unlimited access"? That is normally a permission
issue (unless this is something like VFAT).
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On Friday 2016-12-30 10:32, Richard Owlett wrote:
>Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 10:32:05
>From: Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab
>Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 17:32:32 +0000
>Resent-From: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>
> On 12/30/2016 10:58 AM, deloptes wrote:
>> Greg Wooledge wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 10:13:26AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>>> "We went over this already."
>>>>
>>>> I don't know about other tallies, but I show ~100 posts.
>>>> Started reviewing them. Found a chain of links leading me to
>>>> https://wiki.debian.org/UserPrivateGroups . I've just started
>>>> reading it. It addresses my goal.
>>>
>>> Maybe if you would STATE your goal, someone could help you.
>
> I want a specific set of users to have unrestricted access to one or more
> specific partitions.
>
>
>>
>> The goal described in the document is classic user groups and collaboration
>> via groups.
>
> Quoting from https://wiki.debian.org/UserPrivateGroups:
>
> "It requires no action on the part of the end-user to work as expected. Files
> and directories within a group directory can be created, modified, and deleted,
> and (for the most part) have their permissions modified as usual, whilst being
> shared with other group members and protected from non-members."
>
> and later
>
> "Group directories (directories with the set-group-id flag) are shared work
> spaces (that again all users are able to visit). All members of the group that
> owns the directory can create and write to files in it. Additionally, according
> to the set-group-id flag, all newly created files in the group directory will
> belong to the creating user who wrote the file and (this is special) to the
> group the directory belongs to. The result is that all members of the group can
> work on the files in their group directory. Other than that, group directories
> work just like home directories. So if a file for example should be readable
> only by group members, again, put it into a private/ subdirectory!"
>
> I see *NO DIFFERENCE* between that and my previously stated goal.
>
>
>
>>
>> There are also nice examples. It has nothing to do with /etc/fstab however.
>> Admitted: users goal is still unclear.
>>
>> @ Richard. Originally stated problem with fstab/mount, no saying the wiki
>> article addresses your goal. How could we conclude from to disconnected
>> topics what your goal is?
>>
>> You usually mount the root of a partition to some directory. you create
>> subdirectories where you can set whatever permissions and groups you need
>> and add users to those groups, so that users can read/write where they have
>> access to. In most of the cases this has nothing to do with the mount. The
>> case where it has to do with mount is where user needs to mount/umount a
>> media (usually external or network drive)
>>
>> regards
>>
>>
>
>
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