On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 13:04, ccox at linuxsnob.com wrote:
> you can allow a non-root user to mount a vfat partition with a fstab entry
> like mine below -
> 
> /dev/hda5               /dosd           vfat    defaults,user   0 0
> 
> if your looking for only certain users to be allowed to use the partition,
> you *might* be able to do this by creating a user with a new group called
> "vfat" ( or whatever) and then using that user to mount the directory with
> permissions allowing group writable (0775) then add the specific users to
> the group "vfat" and it *should* work.

Well, if you're going to do a group, why not just always mount the
partition with group write permissions?

/dev/hda5	/dosd	vfat	defaults,umask=002,gid=vfat	0	0

(or something like that..)

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