mounting a filesystem so only one specified user can read it

PatrickMay16 · 10-17-2006, 10:16 AM

Hello everyone.

I want to set the mount options in the /etc/fstab file for a hard disk I have (/dev/hda1, mounted on /media/windows) so that its contents would only be readable to my user account, "patrick", and all other user accounts could not read from it.

Here's my /etc/fstab file:

Code:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/hdb1       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/hdb5       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/hda1       /media/windows  ntfs    ro,auto,uid=patrick,gid=patrick,user,fmask=0111,dmask=0000 0 0

If anyone can let me know what to put in to set things up this way, I'd appreciate it a lot.

Lenard · 10-17-2006, 10:28 AM

Change the mountpoint to something like /home/patrick/windows or set the current mountpoint to be owned by patrick, example (as root);

chown patrick.patrick /media/windows

FYI: root will still have access to this mountpoint.

PatrickMay16 · 10-17-2006, 10:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lenard

Change the mountpoint to something like /home/patrick/windows or set the current mountpoint to be owned by patrick, example (as root);

chown patrick.patrick /media/windows

FYI: root will still have access to this mountpoint.

Thanks, but changing ownership of the mountpoint didn't make any difference, and I need the mountpoint to stay where it is.

If anyone has any other suggestions, I'd be happy to hear them.

jstephens84 · 10-17-2006, 11:02 AM

could just chmod 750 /media/windows then make sure patrick is both the owner and group owner of the directory. Everyone elese would not have permissions to the directory.

PatrickMay16 · 10-17-2006, 11:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jstephens84

could just chmod 750 /media/windows then make sure patrick is both the owner and group owner of the directory. Everyone elese would not have permissions to the directory.

This didn't work either.

jstephens84 · 10-17-2006, 11:32 AM

When you say it didn't work are you refering in that others can still access it.

PatrickMay16 · 10-17-2006, 11:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jstephens84

When you say it didn't work are you refering in that others can still access it.

Yes, others can still access /media/windows and the files that are in it.

jstephens84 · 10-17-2006, 11:39 AM

what happens after you unmount it then remount it.