Users can't access mounted drives

NosLycn · 04-01-2005, 02:07 PM

Good day, all.

Here's the show as it stands. Users can't access mounted drives on my Debian system. My current fstab is set up with the options:

rw,user,auto,exec

When comp boots up, it automatically mounts the drives, as it should, but only root can access them. an ls -l of my /mnt directory shows everything as root:root.

Is there any way to change this so that users can read, write, and execute from my mounted drives?

~NosLycn

acid_kewpie · 04-01-2005, 02:21 PM

what kind of drives are they?? "mounted" hardly means anything here...

NosLycn · 04-01-2005, 02:46 PM

One drive is a 20gb ipod (/dev/sda2), formatted as fat32.

The other drive is a 20gb fat32 ide drive on /dev/hdb1

I should also mention that I am using Debian, incase I hadn't before. I should also mention that I did everything the same as I had in every other distro I have used. It just doesn't want non-root users to access those drives.

alienDog · 04-01-2005, 03:16 PM

You need to set the permissions for fat filesystems with mount command. Take a look at this thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=306325

Btw. it really is a good idea to do a search before posting... This has been dealt with a thousand times before.

NosLycn · 04-01-2005, 03:37 PM

For the record, I did a search but couldn't find anything relevant. Thank you for finding it for me.

~NosLycn