[wplug] permissions on /mnt/camera

[Robert E. Coutch]

Reply to list with what actually works because I was under the impression
that the mount command or /etc/fstab sets the permissions for the mount.

In other words you would have to do something like:
mount -t vfat -o uid=xxx gid=xxx umask=0022

Where uid and gid are the user id and group id you want for the mount point
and umask is the permissions you don't want.

If your disto is fairly recent,
look into /etc/security/ for the file that controls who is allowed to mount 
what (something about perms)
and add the disk (or what ever your system uses) group to your user account.

On SuSE 8.2, I can mount ZIP disks without su, root access or sudo.


Hope this helps,

Bob

On Saturday 27 March 2004 01:11 pm, 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.
>
> I wrote a script with sudo so that all my wife had to do to mount it was
> type in "camera" at the command line and the camera would mount, but I
> can't seem to chmod or chown /mnt/camera:
>
> [root at dell mnt]# chown sugapablo:sugapablo /mnt/camera
> chown: changing ownership of `/mnt/camera': Operation not permitted
> [root at dell mnt]# chmod 777 camera
> [root at dell mnt]# ls -l
> total 36
> drwxr--r--    3 root     root         8192 Dec 31  1969 camera/
>
> Is there something about mounted drives I don't know about?
>
> Also, I have know idea where Dec 31, 1969 comes from either.