Hello,
I recently installed Slackware 10.1 and added some NTFS partitions to my fstab during the installation. I would like to make the partitions available to me when I am not signed in as root. There is only one person using this computer, so I only have a root user and a user called 'nathan' (normal account for web browsing etc).

My current fix for getting the filesystem to work is this:My worry is that this is insecure somehow. I don't have a webserver running on this machine, but I do have whatever default services Slackware Installer thought were useful running.

I am aware that there is an option umask=**** with which you can change the permissions a filesystem is mounted with. I don't, however, understand the syntax of the umask option, nor do I know what group(s) (if any) my user 'nathan' needs to be a part of. (Something about setting a GID=***,UID=*** ?) Currently the user 'nathan' belongs to no groups except 'users'.

Is my current solution insecure? Can anyone give me tips on what the best solution is?

Thanks for reading.

Turns out my 'solution' was no solution. I edited the fstab with the line I posted above, and now my user 'nathan' can mount and umount the filesystem, but still can't actually access it (?). Any insight to this would be great

Edit: After much googling, I figured it out! Here are some links I found really helpful:
http://www.lns.cornell.edu/public/CO...ls_3.html#SEC4
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ticle&artid=20
http://electron.mit.edu/~gsteele/linuxfaq/


So I changed the line in my fstab to read
and it works great. Since I didn't specify 'user' or 'users', only root can mount the partition, but that's fine with me, at least now I understand the fstab better. Hopefully someone can find this post useful