Don't have permissions(solved)

[David McGlone]

On Monday 01 June 2009 09:24:31 am David McGlone wrote:
> On Monday 01 June 2009 04:03:11 am Jonas Norlander wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 5:03 AM, David McGlone <david at dmcentral.net> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > last week I wiped my computer so I could re-partition to create another
> > > partition and I went ahead and did a fresh install of Kubuntu and now I
> > > cannot run my web server on that partition anymore.
> > >
> > > I set apache to /media/d/www and now when I try to view web pages I've
> > > created, I get this error:
> > >
> > > Forbidden
> > >
> > > You don't have permission to access / on this server.
> > > Apache/2.2.11 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.6-3ubuntu4.1 with Suhosin-Patch Server
> > > at buddy Port 80
> > >
> > > But If I change apache's virtual server path to /home/david/www and
> > > move the www folder there, everything works. I'm wondering if it's a
> > > permissions problem, but I doubt it because I can write to the
> > > partition as normal user.
> >
> > As the error message say there are some permission problems. What
> > permission do you have on /media/d/www and how is the partition
> > mounted?
>
> david at buddy:~$ ls -la /media/
> total 77
> drwxr-xr-x  5 root root     4096 2009-05-31 21:14 .
> drwxr-xr-x 21 root root     4096 2009-05-31 21:14 ..
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root        6 2009-05-26 20:23 cdrom -> cdrom0
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     4096 2009-05-26 20:23 cdrom0
> drwxrwx---  9 root plugdev 65536 1969-12-31 19:00 d
>
> I tried changing the owner and permissions, but It will only work if the
> partition is unmounted, but when the partition is mounted, it changes back
> to root plugdev. and I can't change permissions when the disk is mounted. I
> even tried using dolphin and konq running as root, but when I do that, even
> as root I get this error:
>
> Could not modify the ownership of file /media/d. You have insufficient
> access to the file to perform the change.
>
> fstab entry:
>
> UUID=8812-A612  /media/d              vfat    utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0      
> 1
>
> I was going to change the fstab entry, but I don't know enough to do so. I
> was going to change it so users could mount and un mount the partition.
>
> by the way, where did the program in system settings go that allowed us to
> edit the ownership, and enabled users to mount/unmount etc, etc of
> partitions go?

I just broke down and changed my fstab entry to this:

UUID=8812-A612  /media/d              vfat    utf8,auto,user 0       1

Now I can mount, unmount and run apache on that partition as normal user.


-- 
Blessings,
David M.
http://www.dmcentral.net