Onofrio 'Ninni' de Bari wrote:
>
> Hi folks.
>
> I have a laptop with a Win partition and a Slackware 9.0 one. I mounted
> the windows one in /etc/fstab with the line
>
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat defaults 1 0
>
> but if I type
>
> ls /mnt/win
>
> at the prompt as a non root user it tells me "permission denied" on
> every file.
>
> What should I modify in /etc/fstab? I read
>
> man mount
>
> but I didn't find anything that fits perfectly.
> Slackware 8.1 had a different behaviour; after the installation, the
> default was to give every user the chance to read (at least) the vfat
> filesystem.

This will let all users in the "users" group to access the
windows partition.

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat defaults,users,rw 1 0

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David wrote:

> This will let all users in the "users" group to access the windows
> partition.
>
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat defaults,users,rw 1 0
>

Sadly, it still doesn't work...
Hmmm... I don't know what to do know... if not "playing" with umask, but
it is quite dangerous for the vfat filesystem, isn't it?

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On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 13:23:35 +0200, Onofrio 'Ninni' de Bari
<ondebXYZ@inwind.it> wrote:
> Hmmm... I don't know what to do know... if not "playing" with umask, but
> it is quite dangerous for the vfat filesystem, isn't it?

It's only dangerous in that you can allow users to access that
partition who shouldn't have access to it. The umask & uid settings
are the ones you need to look at.


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On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 13:04:33 +0100, Simon wrote:

> On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 13:23:35 +0200, Onofrio 'Ninni' de Bari
> <ondebXYZ@inwind.it> wrote:
>> Hmmm... I don't know what to do know... if not "playing" with umask, but
>> it is quite dangerous for the vfat filesystem, isn't it?
>
> It's only dangerous in that you can allow users to access that
> partition who shouldn't have access to it. The umask & uid settings
> are the ones you need to look at.


this sounds like the kinda thing you might be looking for,

http://jetblackz.freeservers.com/Con...untPoints.html

hope that helps.

E.M.Y wrote:

> this sounds like the kinda thing you might be looking for,
>
> http://jetblackz.freeservers.com/Con...untPoints.html

Thanks for the link.
Anyway, I made it working adding

uid=<myuser>

to the options before 1 and 0 in my line (since this is my desktop
system, I don't have to worry about how many users can read/write).

Thanks to everybody for your help.


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On Sat, 05 Jul 2003 10:18:37 +0200, Onofrio 'Ninni' de Bari wrote:

> uid=<myuser>

For a cleaner fix in the future involving multiple users re-read the man
page for moutn and pay attention to the 'gid=' option.

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