*- On 23 Jun, Gertjan Klein wrote about "Autofs for root only??" > I am trying to convince autofs to allow others than root to access the > automounted filesystems, and I'm failing miserably. I can find no > information on this subject in the man pages. It appears the problem is > not directly related to autofs, though, because I fail with standard > mount as well. Here is what I did to test: > > asterix:/# mkdir test > asterix:/# chown root:disk test > asterix:/# dir test > drwxrwxr-x 2 root disk 1024 Jun 23 21:56 test > asterix:/# mount -t ext2 /dev/hda6 /test -o user,suid,exec > asterix:/# dir test > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Jun 22 19:31 test > asterix:/# dir /dev/hda6 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 6 Jul 21 1998 > > For some reason, the mount command changes the permissions of /test > right back to what they were. If I log in as a user and try to access > (write to) the mounted filesystem I'm denied access. The same happens > with autofs mounted filesystems. > > What can I do to fix this? >
mount -t ext2 /dev/hda6 /test -o suid,gid=<gid-of-disk>,umask=002 Then make sure your user is in the group disk adduser <user> disk # user will have to logout and back in The user option is pointless on the mount command line, it is only usefull in the /etc/fstab file, see the mount(8) man page. [EMAIL PROTECTED]/}[237]>ls -dl mnt 1 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Jun 15 18:20 mnt/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/}[238]>mount -t vfat /dev/hdc5 /mnt -o gid=35,umask=002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/}[239]>ls -dl mnt 16 drwxrwxr-x 4 root dos 16384 Dec 31 1969 mnt/ So in your autofs.<mountpoint> file use the gid and umask options. -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
