[wplug] Permissions quesion

Christopher DeMarco cmd at alephant.net
Fri Jul 8 23:01:07 EDT 2005


On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 07:50:38PM -0700, Brad Hoover wrote:

> With the root prompt I put in the same command I tried previously,
> but with still no luck.  Am I messing something up with chmod?
> Should I be using another command?  And for the record, the windows
> drive is mounted as read-only, is that an issue with the command I
> put in?  Doesn't 444 give read-only access to everyone?  Any help
> with this would be greatly appreciated.

I don't think you want to be chmoding a Windows filesystem.

Try adding the "uid=,gid=" options to your mount command (or to
/etc/fstab, if that's how you're doing it); this will cause the
filesystem to be mounted with the specified permissions.  This is of
course only useful if you fill those values in correctly (i.e. with
the UID/GID of the user to whom you want to grant access).

You can verify that this is in fact the problem you're facing by doing
a ``ls -l'' on the mounted fs and seeing what the permissions are.

HTH

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