From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 29 10:50: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBA0337B43F for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 10:49:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vedette by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13TpVN-000FPu-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 20:49:01 +0300 Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 20:49:01 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Q: Permission of /zip Message-ID: <20000829204901.B58433@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD-Questions References: <39AB9F21.1E5B4F7D@attglobal.net> <20000829151021.A86770@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> <20000829170444.B29211@linux.rainbow> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <20000829170444.B29211@linux.rainbow>; from Igor Roboul on Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 05:04:44PM +0400 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Accept-Language: en fr X-Editor: Pico http://www.washington.edu/pine X-Location: Mombasa, Kenya, East Africa X-Uptime: 8:46PM up 1 day, 9:37, 3 users, load averages: 0.26, 0.24, 0.22 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quoting Igor Roboul : [000829 17:53]: Igor Roboul>On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 03:10:21PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Igor Roboul>> Quoting youlgok@attglobal.net : Igor Roboul>> [000829 14:29]: Igor Roboul>> youlgok@attglobal.net>How can I change a permission to use /zip for an user. Currently, only Igor Roboul>> youlgok@attglobal.net>root can access it. Igor Roboul>> Igor Roboul>> chmod g+wr /zip Igor Roboul>> or chmod 750 /zip I was assuming this pal was talking about a file (folder) called zip. That is why I gave him the options. I hoped he'd know about 777 and things like that ;-) Maybe he can tell us he's talking about a ZIP drive. Igor Roboul>Which is NOT equalent :-) "chmod 770 /zip" Igor Roboul>But this will not work. I think he wish allow users mount (not only write) ZIP Igor Roboul>drives. Best way is to use mtools port (so users don't need mount zip) Igor Roboul> Igor Roboul>-- Igor Roboul>Igor Roboul, Unix System Administrator & Programmer @ sanatorium "Raduga" Igor Roboul>http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=304744 Igor Roboul> Igor Roboul> Igor Roboul>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org Igor Roboul>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Odhiambo Washington Systems Administrator Inter-Connect Ltd. 3rd Flr The Chancery Valley Rd PO Box 39519 Nairobi Tel: 254 2 711140 Fax: 254 2 718418 Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that. -D. H. Lawrence, "Selected Essays" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message