Changing Permission of a command

Encrypted · 01-16-2003, 05:59 AM

Hi,

i just got the ntfs support working for my kernel,
so now i want to mount the partition where windows is located,
the only problem is, only root can mount devices,
i tried lots of stuff to change permissions of the directory, but i didnt succeed once, i tried it with chown and chmod, but i still dont have the permissions,
now is there a way to change the permissions of a command?

thanks in advance

Encrypted

ajk · 01-16-2003, 06:06 AM

working with sudo could help.
At home, i use this for mounting smb-shares.
But to mount a local ntfs drive, you can also insert a "user" is your fstab, since i assume, you want to insert the drive there...

greets ajk

macewan · 01-16-2003, 06:20 AM

xsu google search it
gsu http://evolvedoo.sourceforge.net/gsu/

you don't have the distro you are using listed so i'll just say that from a term window you would type something like:
xsu etherape

and a little window would pop up for you to enter the root password

Encrypted · 01-16-2003, 06:42 AM

thanks guys

and im using red hat 8.0,

encrypted

[edit]
allright i tried the sudo command, but since only root is in the sudoers file yet, i couldnt execute any commands yet,
so, to edit the sudoers file you need visudo, and that command is unkown to my bash.....

Anyone know where i can get the visudo tool?

thanks again

encrypted
[/edit]

Encrypted · 01-16-2003, 07:17 AM

Never mind that last question,

it works now

[edit]
Ok, another problem.....

So i do

sudo -u root mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows
Password:

amd i type my password.
But now i still cant access /mnt/windows........
only root can access that directory.....

before i try that GNOME Superuser program, does anybody know an easy solution for my problem

thanks.......

ajk · 01-16-2003, 07:30 AM

Yes.
Isert this ntfs drive in your /etc/fstab. Use the param user. From now on, you should be able to mount the drive. Since I'm @uni, i can't give you correct syntax right now...

Or: sudo -u root mount -t ntfs -o uid=xxx /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows

uid=xxx means your user ID. This works, but I'm not shure whether it's correct like that.

**man mount** for further help