security-access permissions

kumary · 12-02-2005, 05:03 AM

hello every one

will any one plz tell me how to change the permissions of a normal user

bye

lockout · 12-02-2005, 06:02 AM

FPFPFP!

Of what permissions do you speak?
If you speak on file access permisions than you should check /etc/groups
and reffer to man page on chmod, chown commands.

Cheers

kumary · 12-02-2005, 06:24 AM

hi
actually i mounted fat32 drive in linux and while accessing the drive as a normal user im unable to modify the contents of the driver is there any way to do that (I'm able to read but not write in to the drive)

lockout · 12-02-2005, 06:40 AM

Did you check the /etc/fstab file has an user rw option set for the FAT32 partition.
Be sure to check that a user has rw permissoins on the target mount directory (eg. /mnt/fat).

Cheers!

kumary · 12-02-2005, 06:57 AM

this is my /etc/fstab content

________________________________________________________________
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 /home/arjun/windows auto defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
_____________________________________________________________

where to modify

lockout · 12-02-2005, 08:14 AM

Lets assume that this entry specifies your FTA32 drive

Quote:

/dev/hda6 /home/arjun/windows auto defaults 0 0

If it is so indeed than you should be setting filesystem to vfat and the main thing -
change defaults to user,rw,noauto:

Code:

/dev/hda6 /home/arjun/windows vfat user,rw,noauto 0 0

For more info look here .

As the mount piont resides within your home directory I assume it has full acces priviliges for user arjun.

kumary · 12-03-2005, 02:37 AM

Thanx for ur help it solved my problem

bye

Mara · 12-03-2005, 01:40 PM

Your thread is moved to Linux-Newbie, where it fits much better, because it's a Linux-technical one.