[Tfug] USB hard drive and permissions

[John Stone]

Did you add your non-root users that you want to access this drive to the
"disk group"?  If not, try that and the access problem should go away.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org]On Behalf Of
> robbinsc at ece.arizona.edu
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 2:04 AM
> To: tfug at tfug.org
> Subject: [Tfug] USB hard drive and permissions
>
>
> Thanks to everyone who helped......I got the thing to work....I had to
> edit fstab and add a new line for the usb hard drive....But I  can't
> access the drive from any account other than root...Here's what the fstab
> looks like -
>
> /dev/hda6            /                    reiserfs   acl,user_xattr
> 1 1
> /dev/hda2            /windows/C           ntfs
> ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
> /dev/hda5            swap                 swap       pri=42
> 0 0
> devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5
> 0 0
> proc                 /proc                proc       defaults
> 0 0
> usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      noauto
> 0 0
> sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      noauto
> 0 0
> /dev/cdrecorder      /media/cdrecorder    subfs
> fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
> /dev/sda1            /media/usb-storage-DEF107679C83:0:0:0p1    ntfs
> defaults, user, noauto 0 0
>
> It does mount properly, and it does show up in KwikDisk, but I can't
> access it anywhere other than root.  Is this a fstab problem or a
> permissions problem?
> Thanks again-
>
> Chris Robbins
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