How to give non-root users access to mounted partitions?

black hole sun · 10-28-2004, 05:10 PM

Well of course I can do a su - everytime I want in, but I want to be able to browse the partition with konqueror. Note that this is an NTFS partition which is mounted read-only, so I cannot change it's ownership with chown.

Blinker_Fluid · 10-28-2004, 05:38 PM

I think you need to change the permissions on the mount point before you do the mount.
ie.
chmod 777 /mnt/foo
then
mount /dev/hda8 /mnt/foo

Komakino · 10-28-2004, 05:42 PM

try adding

Code:

umask=0,user

to your /etc/fstab file for the NTFS partition.

Tinkster · 10-28-2004, 05:42 PM

Use the search,, Luke!

Cheers,
Tink

black hole sun · 10-28-2004, 05:47 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Komakino
try adding

Code:

umask=0,user

to your /etc/fstab file for the NTFS partition.

Thank you, that did it!

Just to satisfy my curiosity, what does the umask= option mean?

Tinkster · 10-28-2004, 05:52 PM

Quote:

what does the umask= option mean?

man -k umask

Cheers,
Tink