From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 20 17: 3:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from neodymium.btinternet.com (neodymium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF2AF37B5A0 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 17:03:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from [62.7.41.247] (helo=parish.my.domain) by ruthenium.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12iN2w-0002gu-00; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 20:55:30 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA02055; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 20:52:26 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 20:52:18 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Nils Holland Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting MS-DS fs writeable for all Message-ID: <20000420205218.A232@parish> References: <00041921121300.41782@tempest.ncptiddische.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <00041921121300.41782@tempest.ncptiddische.net>; from nils@frozenfeelings.com on Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 09:09:21PM +0200 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 09:09:21PM +0200, Nils Holland wrote: > I currently have the following entry in my /etc/fstab in order to mount my > MS-DOS filesystem under FreeBSD: > > /dev/wd0s1 /msdos msdos rw > > The filesystem is being mounted correctly, but only root can write to it, the > other users cannot. I thought that this might simply be changed be changing the > permissions of /msdos (where the DOS-partition is mounted to) but this does not > work. So, how do I make my mounted DOS-partition writeable for all? > Hmm, my /drvc (msdosfs mount-point) has 777 perms and is owned by a normal user and is writeble by everyone: parish:/usr/music{64}% ls -ld /drvc drwxrwxrwx 1 mark wheel 16384 Dec 31 1979 /drvc parish:/usr/music{65}% ls -l /drvc total 8320 -rwxrwxrwx 1 mark wheel 185266 Jan 7 1999 1.jpeg drwxrwxrwx 1 mark wheel 8192 Apr 14 1999 ATI -rwxrwxrwx 1 mark wheel 588 Mar 12 17:13 AUTOEXEC.000 -rwxrwxrwx 1 mark wheel 594 Mar 11 18:33 AUTOEXEC.BAK -rwxrwxrwx 1 mark wheel 606 Apr 20 20:06 AUTOEXEC.BAT -rwxrwxrwx 1 mark wheel 482 Nov 22 1998 AUTOEXEC.DOS -rwxrwxrwx 1 mark wheel 297 Apr 14 1999 BOOT.--- -rwxrwxrwx 1 mark wheel 297 Mar 11 18:49 BOOT.BAK [snip] Maybe the group ownership, and those users needing to write to it must be in the wheel group as well?? > Greetings, > Nils > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- ...and on the eighth day God created UNIX ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message