On 12/30/2016 10:58 AM, deloptes wrote:
Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 10:13:26AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
"We went over this already."
I don't know about other tallies, but I show ~100 posts.
Started reviewing them. Found a chain of links leading me to
https://wiki.debian.org/UserPrivateGroups . I've just started
reading it. It addresses my goal.
Maybe if you would STATE your goal, someone could help you.
I want a specific set of users to have unrestricted access to one
or more specific partitions.
The goal described in the document is classic user groups and collaboration
via groups.
Quoting from https://wiki.debian.org/UserPrivateGroups:
"It requires no action on the part of the end-user to work as
expected. Files and directories within a group directory can be
created, modified, and deleted, and (for the most part) have
their permissions modified as usual, whilst being shared with
other group members and protected from non-members."
and later
"Group directories (directories with the set-group-id flag) are
shared work spaces (that again all users are able to visit). All
members of the group that owns the directory can create and write
to files in it. Additionally, according to the set-group-id flag,
all newly created files in the group directory will belong to the
creating user who wrote the file and (this is special) to the
group the directory belongs to. The result is that all members of
the group can work on the files in their group directory. Other
than that, group directories work just like home directories. So
if a file for example should be readable only by group members,
again, put it into a private/ subdirectory!"
I see *NO DIFFERENCE* between that and my previously stated goal.
There are also nice examples. It has nothing to do with /etc/fstab however.
Admitted: users goal is still unclear.
@ Richard. Originally stated problem with fstab/mount, no saying the wiki
article addresses your goal. How could we conclude from to disconnected
topics what your goal is?
You usually mount the root of a partition to some directory. you create
subdirectories where you can set whatever permissions and groups you need
and add users to those groups, so that users can read/write where they have
access to. In most of the cases this has nothing to do with the mount. The
case where it has to do with mount is where user needs to mount/umount a
media (usually external or network drive)
regards
