On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:26:04 +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote: > I have an external usb hard drive that I use solely for storing backups > which are done every three hours of my home folder. It is 'owned' by > root, but I want to have the user boztu to have ownership of it so that > boztu can write to it from their cron backup program, but how do I do it > please? > > At the moment root writes to it at midnight and creates a new dated > folder, because only root has write access to it. Then every three hours > boztu writes to it and backs up the changes in the home folder, but I > want user boztu to do =all= of it including creating the new dated > folder. > > Does this make sense?
Mmm, why don't you just... - Mount the USB disk to be user writeable (this can be set at "/etc/ fstab"), and then - Use the user's crontab to run the task? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.12.22.17.09...@gmail.com
