permisions question
 

hia all =)

ive just got a quick question, how do i give a user premision to write to fat32 partitions and reboot the computer?

thanks =)

I would think that if a user wanted to reboot the computer, then logout and press CTRL-ALT-DEL for runlevel 3, if run level 4 then choose the option on the kdm menu. Either should initiate the shutdown process. If it is desired that the computer not reboot, then power off when BIOS screen is displayed.

Since FAT32 partitions do not have permission bits on the files or directories, I would think it would revert to the permissons of the mount point directory. Try changing the permisisons of that directory. (chmod 777 /mnt/hd) or whatever the name of the directory it is.

hhhhmmm the fat32 permisions comand u gave me didnt work.............

i still get this error "Access Denied: Could not write to /c-fat/"

aahhhh well, thanks for your help anyway, the reboot comand werked =)

Maybe try to unmount the directory (as root), change permissions and then mount it again. Also check your /etc/fstab. It may be mounting it read-only.
An example line:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0

If you have an entry for the fat32 partition in your /etc/fstab file, then add umask=000 to it. Like this:

/dev/hd?? /c-fat vfat noauto,user,umask=000 0 0

If you want it to automatically mount on boot up, change noauto to auto.