fstab question

[Magnus Therning]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 04:53:38PM +1100, Cameron Hutchison wrote:
>Once upon a time Nicholas Pappas said...
>> Simon Taplin wrote:
>> 
>> > What I need to change to give all users full access to this parition, 
>> at this point I can only browse it as root.
>> 
>> 
>> /dev/hdc5    /media/Backups    reiserfs defaults,users    0    0
>> 
>>     The "users" option.
>
>The users option is typically used for removable media which mounted on
>demand.
>
>The fstab entry Simon provided did not have a "noauto" option so it
>would have been mounted on boot. Non-root users would not be able to
>unmount and remount it.
>
>Simon, What you want has nothing to do with fstab. You need to change
>the file permissions of the directory hierarchy, and possibly the
>owner/groups. It will depend on what level of access to the partition
>you want ordinary users to have.
>
>The commands you are looking for are chmod(1) and chown(1).
>
>As a start, to make the all files in the directory hierarchy readable to
>everyone, but writable only to root, run the following commands as root:
>
># find /media/Backups -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod u=rwx,g=rx,o-rx
># find /media/Backups -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod g=u-w,o=u-w

This would be easier, and the result the same:

 # chmod -R u=rwX,go=rX /media/Backups

/M

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