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..) -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ "I'm going to KILL you." -- / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ Stewie, Family Guy \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020907/c0444938/attachment.pgp