USB/ntfs drive and user permissions
I have an external ntfs-formatted USB drive. When I turn the drive on, Fedora FC3 correctly identifies this hardware and mounts it, but does so with root having sole permissions. Here's the fstab entry (automatically generated):
/dev/sdd1 on /media/remote type ntfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,user=rolf)
Despite the user=rolf entry, as a user I can only access the drive by becoming root, unmounting the drive, and remounting with umask=0222. I tried at first modifying fstab to add an entry such as
/dev/sdd1 /media/remote ntfs ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0
which gives me access for that login session, but apparently I can't always count on the drive being mounted as the same device after a reboot (sometimes comes up /dev/sdd, and sometimes /dev/sde, etc.). Thus permanent modifications to fstab don't always seem to work. Is there some way other than by modifying fstab to ensure that this drive is reliably mounted with user read permissions at boot time? Does this behavior come about because of ntfs -- i.e., if the drive were fat, would the system mount the drive with the user permissions automatically?
Thanks much in advance, great forum. --Rolf
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