From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 3 00:35:25 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58D0516A402 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 00:35:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (gizmo.acns.msu.edu [35.8.1.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A82013C4A5 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 00:35:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l230WhSS092859; Fri, 2 Mar 2007 19:32:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id l230WhPi092858; Fri, 2 Mar 2007 19:32:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 19:32:43 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister To: Chris Hill Message-ID: <20070303003243.GA92829@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <45E8AFC6.4010207@earthlink.net> <20070302233455.GA92618@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <45E8C066.4080207@earthlink.net> <20070302192743.T12679@tripel.monochrome.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070302192743.T12679@tripel.monochrome.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: "Michael G." , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Users unable to write to mounted FAT32 partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:35:25 -0000 On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 07:30:50PM -0500, Chris Hill wrote: > On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Michael G. wrote: > > >Owner of /mydos is root and Group is wheel. User has rwx while Group > >and Other only have r-x > > Well, there it is. I think users who want to write to this filesystem > need to have write permission on the mountpoint. How about creating a > group, perhaps "users", of which all users are members, then chown > root:users /mydos, then chmod 775 /mydos That would be my thinking. Maybe make a mydos group and only put users in that you want to be able to r/w the mydos slice instead of everybody and then chown it to root:mydos would seem 'safer' if there are a bunch of users on the machine. ////jerry > > >Jerry McAllister wrote: > >>On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:14:14PM -0600, Michael G. wrote: > >> > >>>OK, I've scoured the archives for an answer with no results. I'm > >>>sharing a FAT32 partition between XP and 6.2 Release. The problem > >>>is I can mount the drive but only root can write to it (users can > >>>just read). I have the following in fstab: > >>> > >>>/dev/asd42 /mydos msdosfs rw 0 0 > >>> > >>>I've tried adding the -u or -g option with no luck. I understand > >>>that since FAT has no inherent permissions chmod has no effect > >>>either (tried it just to be sure) so it must be set from fstab. > >>>Any help? > >> > >>What are the owner and permissions on the mount point (/mydos)? > > -- > Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org > ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ]