William Lacy wrote:
>Can I set up /etc/fstab so that anyone at the console can mount a given
>filesystem, and also so that any user can write to these filesystems
>automatically without executing "su"?
Add the option 'user' to allow any user to mount a filesystem.
Whether any user can write to a filesystem depends on the permissions of
its files and directories. You can _disable_ writing by adding the 'ro'
option. For microsoft filesystems (msdos, umsdos, vfat), which do not
have any permissions in themselves, there is an option 'umask=value'.
This is from mount(8):
umask=value
Set the umask (the bitmask of the permissions that
are not present). The default is the umask of the
current process. The value is given in octal.
so, mounting with default umask gives:
# umask
022
# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ls -l /mnt
total 6
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 512 Jan 3 1992 asw-1410
...
but specifying a mask gives:
# mount -t msdos -o umask=0 /dev/fd0 /mnt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ls -l /mnt
total 6
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 512 Jan 3 1992 asw-1410
...
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