[wplug] permissions on /mnt/camera

[Eric C. Cooper]

On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 01:11:24PM -0500, Russ Schneider wrote:
> I mount my digital camera as /mnt/camera but I'd like other users (namely 
> my wife) to be able to get in that directory without giving out root 
> privileges.
> [...] 
> Is there something about mounted drives I don't know about?

The camera probably uses a VFAT filesystem, which doesn't support user
ids, group ids, or permissions.  So you have to specify them for the
whole filesystem, at mount time.  See the "mount" man page, under
"Mount options for fat".

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