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Herry (aherr@chaos.mur.csu.edu.au) spake thusly:
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: I am running into trouble mounting my hardisk uid root but giving access
: to other users via guid X.
: I am unable to change write access to the disk as root. I could mount
: the disk as uid (users), but I'd rather prefer to have root as the
: owner.
: Here the way I do it:
:  mount -t msdos -o conv=auto,uid=0,gid=100,umask 002  /dev/hdc1 /dosd
: The disk than is mounted with:
: user:root group:100 rights:dxwr-rx-rx
: chmod g+w nor chmod 002 results in a permission denied answer.
: Am I missing something or what do I do wrong?

you need to add an entry to your /etc/fstab file so that other users can
mount the disk, as follows:

/dev/hdc1	/dosd	msdos	defaults,user,noexec	0 0

Then any user of your machine can mount /dev/hdc1. From a security point
of view, you should have "defaults,noexec" in column 4 instead. This will
also make /dev/hdc1 automatically mounted on boot (you can change that by
inserting noauto into column 4). Then you can change the ownership of the
mount point or change the perms on it (which is what I'd do).

hth,
jcm

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