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Re: [PLUG] permissions on mounted filesystems
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On Feb 24 in the year of our Lord 2000, thus spake the Christian Betz:
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>I usually use my computer as the normal user shux. By default my vfat
>partition is mounted on /mnt/shux (on startup). However I would like to
>give all users (specifically shux) read and write access. I was looking
>around the man pages but I honestly can't say I understand how to set the
>options so all users have read/write capability. How can I do this?
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>Specifically I want to mount this vfat hard drive, which contains mp3's,
>and serve them through samba. However machines which access the share
>don't hae read and write access because of the original problem described
>above.
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
IMO, the simplest way would just be to (as root, of course):
# chmod 777 /mnt/shux
unless there are more security issues with doing it that way than
editing /etc/fstab like the other two people suggested. Anybody know if
it's less secure?
Bill
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