[64studio-devel] [SOLVED] HDD: Write permissions for ordinary user [SOLVED]

[R.Wolff]

Sure Jason, here it is:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/hda6       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/hda7       /home           ext3    defaults        0       2
/dev/hda5       /home/Diverses  vfat    defaults        0       0
/dev/hde5       /home/MIDI      vfat    defaults        0       0
/dev/hdc5       /home/Projects  vfat    defaults        0       0
/dev/hdg5       /home/Samples   vfat    defaults        0       0
/dev/hdc6       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/hdb        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,     0       0
/dev/hdd        /media/cdrom1   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,     0       0

All this stuff is making me really dizzy. The man pages are not always 
of great help here neither. It all sounds partly contradictory.


Jason Schaefer schrieb:
> I am curious what your fstab says. You want to send it? I haven't
> followed this thread very carefully but it seems the way to resolve
> permissions issues would be with /etc/fstab.

You're sure right. And it's a hell to make your way through the registry 
for fixing up stuff manually.
It's a good thing in my mind that in Linux-land things are kept "simple".
Only if you've never done any scripting and such things, well, it sure 
looks not less impressive then the Windows registry.

Cheers
Raphael ;)


> The Windows registry is perhaps the most difficult, annoying and
> error-prone part of Windows. I think most people are very grateful gnu
> software keeps it [fairly] simple with separate (modular) files
> throughout /etc. The closest thing I know of to the Windows registry
> is gnome's gconf. But that is for your gui interface.
> 
> 
> 
> On 2/27/07, R.Wolff <musicwolf at web.de> wrote:
>> Thanks to all who tried to help me here. Special thanks go out
>> to Michael Pacey, as it was his hints which brought me the final results.
>>
>> I've added the following lines to /etc/udev/permissions.rules (although
>> I guess that this is really, really not OK to do so):
>>
>> # hd devices
>> KERNEL=="hda5"          MODE="0777"     GROUP="funkster"
>> KERNEL=="hdc5"          MODE="0777"     GROUP="funkster"
>> KERNEL=="hde5"          MODE="0777"     GROUP="funkster"
>> KERNEL=="hdg5"          MODE="0777"     GROUP="funkster
>>
>> Now that has changed the owner of my drives to my username (funkster),
>> root has become the group of them without apparent write permissions
>> when logged in as user. Still, I'm able to create dirs/files no problem.
>>
>>
>> Haven't changed the entries in 'fstab', since the drives were already
>> mounted.
>>
>> This whole permission thing and setup routines etc is just so terribly
>> different from Windows.
>> It seems that EVERYTHING is handled through scripts and such.
>> Does something like the Windows registry exist for GNU/Linux? Or is all
>> handled through those little snippets of code here and there?
>> I've just so much to learn, so back to the books I guess.
>> The other problems are getting solved petit a petit.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Raphael ;)
>>
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