From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HLfgS-0003ss-Tt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:14:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1QDCbEX017704; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:12:37 GMT Received: from ranger.systems.pipex.net (ranger.systems.pipex.net [62.241.162.32]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1QD6uUf010545 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:06:56 GMT Received: from mesh.ruskin (81-86-110-137.dsl.pipex.com [81.86.110.137]) by ranger.systems.pipex.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C51CE000143 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:06:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Ruskin Organization: Retired To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding dual boot accessibility... Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:06:54 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <45E2D0FA.6040201@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <45E2D0FA.6040201@comcast.net> X-No-Archive: yes Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702261306.54673.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> X-Archives-Salt: fae73934-1eab-4236-bf48-9f3a4372617e X-Archives-Hash: f4b8fd6f0f58a9f7128edd96e8ad0075 On Monday 26 February 2007, Chris wrote: > Hello, > > I have a dual boot windows / Gentoo system. I have my NTFS > (windows) main partition listed in fstab with > "user,noauto,nosuid, noatime". A normal user can mount and > umount it, but cannot change directories, look at files, etc. as > they'll get a permission denied error. When I list the files and > dirs, they all show up as belonging to "root:root", with no > access for group and others. > > My question is: Is there a way to allow normal users to at least > read these files and change dirs, short of chown and/or chmod on > the NTFS partition? My fstab entry for NTFS: /dev/sda2 /mnt/win/c ntfs umask=0,users 0 0 -- Peter ======================================================================== Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.1.2-r11 kernel-2.6.20-gentoo AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ gcc(GCC): 4.1.2 KDE: 3.5.6 Qt: 3.3.8 ======================================================================== -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list