Permissions on folders & Partitions Ubuntu
 

Hi there .. how can I set permissions on partitions or folders on Ubuntu 8.10 .. when I right click on any folder or partition .. I cant modify in them it says owner root although my User is of root Group .. ah I forgot to say they are NTFS partitions .. so is their an easy way to enable me to set permissions on those folders? Thanks.

first of all linux does not understand the NTFS partiton by default
though it can be accessed by the installation of tool ntfs-3g rpm on some distribution or on some by default.
but we can not set the permission on NTFS file system from linux plateform. i think so.

Yes I installed ntfs-3g & I can write on ntfs partitions .. but I dont want all users to read & write on it

I think you can specify permissions for the entire partition in fstab. If I remember right it is part of the umask option. As far as I know, you can't do individual file permissions since the NTFS doesn't support this.

try to apply "acl" on that folder
by use of "acl" u can apply very much finer permission on the partion

Sorry I don't know what is acl .. can u explain to me what is that & how can I use it? Thanks.

for folder chmod will help
 

sudo chmod 000 /location will make folder absolute lock , except for root
u can have a script for this command and make it more colourful
But for partition it need to be googled more
Expect another post frm me dude soon

find below link for acl
 

http://tlug.dnho.net/?q=node/171

very gud help try it buddy