On 22 December 2011 17:09, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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? > Very succinctly put, except the hard drive is automatically mounted by Gnome, thats the only mistake you made.
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