Re: [gentoo-user] how to access mounted dir with non-root?

[danielhf@21cn.com]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 05:47:22PM +0000, Stefan K?gl wrote:
> danielhf@21cn.com wrote:
> >i've found that i could not access the mounted 
> >directory with non-root users. 
> >1. i "chown" directories under "/mnt" to the user,
> >   but so long as i mount, the permission of the 
> >   specific dir will be changed to "drwx------" and
> >   owner changed to root automatically.
> >2. i try to use a mount option "users",
> >   $> mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/win -o rw,users
> >   no luck somehow as well.
> >3. i would not use "sudo" to do this, i believe there is 
> >   a way to solve the problem. and not sure "sudo" will work.
> >
> >any ideas about this? thanks a lot in advance
> Which filesystem are you talking about? If you mean NTFS (or maybe 
> others too), you'll have to add a umask to the mount-options.
> >
> >best regards
> >daniel
> 
> greetings
> >
> 
> 
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actually, both ntfs (windows partition) and fat32 (usb disk) have 
the problem, i'll try the "umask" option, thanks to all for your
help.

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daniel
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