hi ,

somebody knows how to give permissions to particular users

to my "datahda7fat32" Partition ?

Slackware Setup set up the "datahda7fat32" partition for me
(root dicrectory /) i can't see any mount points for it, in /dev or /mnt

how do i change the groups having rw access to the directory (partition) "datahda7fat32" ?
how do i add groups to the /etc/groups file ?
does "chgrp" (don't want to give access to all disks) work for partitions that are not listed in /dev or /mnt ? what about "chmod" ?

here i send you my fstab :

/dev/hda5........swap.....................swap........defaults.............0 0
/dev/hda6......../.............................ext2........defaults.............1 1
/dev/hda2......../winhda2fat16....vfat........defaults.............1 0
/dev/hda7......../datahda7fat32 ..vfat........defaults.............1 0
/dev/cdrom....../mnt/cdrom.........auto........auto,owner,users,ro..0 0
/dev/fd0........../mnt/floppy...........auto........noauto,owner.........0 0
devpts............./dev/pts................devpts......gid=5,mode=620.......0 0
proc................./proc...................proc........defaults.............0 0

where it says :
you can do something like :
And your regular users should be able to do stuff .. if you want to specify a user then you can add the argument "uid=XXX" where the X's are a user ID number.

Michaelx,

Linux doesn't deal with "drive partitions" like Windows does; instead of referring to a drive as "C:\" or "D:\", the drives are nothing more than folders branched off of your "/" directory.

Judging by your /etc/fstab file, the seventh partition of your hard drive (hda7) is mounted to "/datahda7fat32".

To allow groups to have read/write access issue the following command (as root, of course):
To add users to "/etc/groups", issue (as root) the "addgroup" command. Type, "man addgroup" for more details on the command.

What "chgrp" does is change the ownership to a group - not necessarily a particular user. Suppose there were a set of sensitive files that only the administrator(s) of a system could touch. So that entire group of administrators, as opposed to just one super user, would have complete access to that file. Remember:
chown - to change ownership to a single user
chmod - to change permissions on a file (you either have to own the file, or be root)
chgrp - to change ownership to a group, and not just a single user

Always refer to "man"pages for almost complete reference to commands and anything Unix-like: "man chown" "man chmod" "man chgrp"

indienick

yes, hda7 is mounted to /datahda7fat32

1.i unmout the hda7
2.i do "chmod a+rwt /datahda7fat32"
3.i check the permissions and they are modified to "drw-rw-rwT datahda7fat32/"
3. i mount /datahda7fat32 again
4. here all the permissions fall back to drwx r-xr-x !!

why ??????

just do what I told you in the /etc/fstab

thanks DrOzz,

it works