Re: Directory Permissions

2004-12-06 Thread Joao Clemente
Ben Bettin wrote: I'm running Sarge and have two 250 gb drives. One has my system installed on it, the other is mounted as /backup. I intended to use /backup to...well...back things up :) How do I grant certain users access to /backup? Right now it's only accessible to the root user. I've read

Re: Directory Permissions

2004-12-06 Thread Kent West
Ben Bettin wrote: I'm running Sarge and have two 250 gb drives. One has my system installed on it, the other is mounted as /backup. I intended to use /backup to...well...back things up :) How do I grant certain users access to /backup? Right now it's only accessible to the root user. I've read

Re: Directory Permissions

2004-12-06 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Ben Bettin (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I'm running Sarge and have two 250 gb drives. One has my system > installed on it, the other is mounted as /backup. I intended to use > /backup to...well...back things up :) > > How do I grant certain users access to /backup? Right now it's only

Re: Directory permissions

2002-11-19 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Haralambos Geortgilakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.11.19.1022 +0100]: > haralambos@haralambos:~$ ld -ld / /Hellene ls I meant sorry.. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things

Re: Directory permissions

2002-11-19 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Yo Madduck, luv that handle! Donald Duck is one of my favz @ Disney! Now, where was I? Debian Tux haralambos@haralambos:~$ ld -ld / /Hellene ld: cannot find -ld haralambos@haralambos:~$ su Password: haralambos:/home/haralambos# ld -ld / /Hellene ld: cannot find -ld haralambos:/home/harala

Re: Directory permissions

2002-11-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 12:51:05PM -0500, sean finney wrote: > that brings up a question i've been wondering: is the FHS merely a > guideline that debian packages follow, or is it something that debian > users are also strongly recommended to follow as well? Debian users can do what they like, al

Re: Directory permissions

2002-11-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 12:51:05PM -0500, sean finney wrote: > that brings up a question i've been wondering: is the FHS merely a > guideline that debian packages follow, or is it something that debian > users are also strongly recommended to follow as well? granted i might > be a hypocrite for n

Re: Directory permissions

2002-11-18 Thread sean finney
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 04:51:15PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > /windows? that's a direct violation of the FHS. just being picky as > you were. does it? i didn't think it did since the reason listed in the fhs for not putting more stuff in / is to keep it small and thus less likely to corrupt

Re: Directory permissions

2002-11-18 Thread martin f krafft
> of time, i'd put it somewhere like /windows or /usr/local/win or > something. /windows? that's a direct violation of the FHS. just being picky as you were. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have

Re: Directory permissions

2002-11-18 Thread sean finney
hiya, On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 12:41:42PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >/dev/hda1 /mnt/win1 vfatdefaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 not to be picky, but just to point it out, having sub-directories in /mnt is non-standard (well, to most linuces/unices, redhat seems to have oth

Re: Directory permissions

2002-11-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Haralambos Geortgilakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.11.18.1219 +0100]: > > haralambos:/Hellene# cd Stuff > haralambos:/Hellene/Stuff# ls -ld > drwxr-xr-x 38 root root24576 Aug 12 21:09 . > haralambos:/Hellene/Stuff# > so /Hellene is a VFAT partition? can you give me *

Re: Directory permissions

2002-11-18 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hi Yall & Martin, here is a wee screen dump haralambos:/Hellene# cd Stuff haralambos:/Hellene/Stuff# ls -ld drwxr-xr-x 38 root root24576 Aug 12 21:09 . haralambos:/Hellene/Stuff# Must crash-it is late on this side of the planet. :-) *BFN* H :-) Seen in a watch shop: PL

Re: Directory permissions

2002-11-18 Thread pd3
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:10:36PM +1300, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: > > So, I have a directory, on a Win-FAT-32 partition, with various > sub-directories & I wanna access then as a plain user. > > Um, like what is the syntax dude/dudette? Hello I would first make some changes to /etc/fst

Re: Directory permissions

2002-11-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Haralambos Geortgilakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.11.18.1110 +0100]: > So, I have a directory, on a Win-FAT-32 partition, with various > sub-directories & I wanna access then as a plain user. show me the `ls -ld ` on that directory. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Copying a system (Was Re: Directory permissions.)

1997-04-30 Thread Rob Browning
Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The reason I opted for mc in the first place was for the ability to tag or > untag directories to avoid copying /proc and the /mnt directories. Since > it had the option to retain UID's and GID's I thought it was a safe > option. I backfired on me which I

Re: Copying a system (Was Re: Directory permissions.)

1997-04-30 Thread Rick Jones
The reason I opted for mc in the first place was for the ability to tag or untag directories to avoid copying /proc and the /mnt directories. Since it had the option to retain UID's and GID's I thought it was a safe option. I backfired on me which I think is a bug and will report it as such. I

Copying a system (Was Re: Directory permissions.)

1997-04-30 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997 Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip-- > Using the correct tools is important. David gives you one such tool - I > personally type the following command in the directory I wish to copy: > "find . -prin

Re: Directory permissions.

1997-04-29 Thread wb2oyc
On 13:28:43 Nathan E Norman wrote: > >Using the correct tools is important. David gives you one such tool - I >personally type the following command in the directory I wish to copy: >"find . -print | cpio -p /target". This is of course a simplification; >find and cpio have a lot of powerful opti

Re: Directory permissions.

1997-04-29 Thread Christian Hudon
On Apr 29, Nathan E Norman wrote > > On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > > > > > [ description of problem ] > > > > > > I did this to avoid a full install when I repartitioned since I have no > > > backup system and have installed from ftp. S

Re: Directory permissions.

1997-04-29 Thread Jim Pick
Rick Jones wrote: > 1. Is there an easy way to reset the permissions of my directories to > what they should be? Such as a program that I can exicute that will set > them or go through and prompt me for the changes. I'd suggest using the dpkgcert package by Klee Dienes - it scans all of the fi

Re: Directory permissions.

1997-04-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, David Wright wrote: > On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > > > [ description of problem ] > > > > I did this to avoid a full install when I repartitioned since I have no > > backup system and have installed from ftp. Somebody out there must have a > > good way to reset

Re: Directory permissions.

1997-04-29 Thread David Wright
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > As some of you are aware, I recently transfered my file system from hda1 > to hda2. When I did it I used midnight commander. > > MC has an option to keep UID's and GID's when copying. Supprise! It only > does this on the files. When it created the direc