directory permissions

Tinku · 09-16-2004, 10:57 AM

hi

i have a partition mounted in the directory /mnt/top as shown by the following line in the fstab file

Code:


/dev/hda3            /mnt/top            ext3       defaults              1 2

By default,no user is able to write anything into it.
I want to give a particular user both write and delete permissions to all stuff in this directory.
How should i do that. Should i change this line in the fstab file or add an entry in the sudo file?

plz give solutions in both ways

PS:i want to give such an access only to one user only....

zaicheke · 09-16-2004, 11:18 AM

I could be wrong but i belive you can just change the permissions of the directory it's mounted to, with chmod and such.

Tinku · 09-16-2004, 12:58 PM

no,sorry rcottere,,that doesnt seem to work

Buto · 09-16-2004, 07:14 PM

Did you make sure they are the user is the owner of the 'top' directory and give the user full permissions to it?

JayCnrs · 09-16-2004, 07:56 PM

Try putting this in the fstab file:

/dev/hda3 /mnt/top ext3 defaults,uid=username 1 2

Tinku · 09-17-2004, 07:28 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by JayCnrs
Try putting this in the fstab file:

/dev/hda3 /mnt/top ext3 defaults,uid=username 1 2

nopes,it didnt work,i even tried just 'uid=username' excluding the defaults, but that didnt make any difference

JayCnrs · 09-21-2004, 10:38 PM

For username you put this as your linux user you login, for eg. I would put uid=jason

You could also add a umask, that is :

Code:

/dev/hda3       /mnt/top      umask=0077,uid="linux username"   1  2

Let us know how it goes.

HTH

JayCnrs · 09-21-2004, 10:42 PM

Forgot to mention the above umask will only give the user r/w permissions, nobody else other than root and the uid="linux username" will be able to enter the directory and make changes. If you want other people to be able to view but not able to write you would use:
umask=0022

Tinku · 09-24-2004, 10:00 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by JayCnrs
For username you put this as your linux user you login, for eg. I would put uid=jason

You could also add a umask, that is :

Code:

/dev/hda3 /mnt/top umask=0077,uid="linux username" 1 2

Let us know how it goes.

HTH

yeah,i kept this,but then the hard disk partition itself was not mounted at the startup

Tinku · 09-25-2004, 08:13 PM

hey guys
chown did the trick