On Sat, July 26 at 5:49 PM EDT Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Here's my problem, maybe someone can help. I have a usb media reader >than handles smartmedia, compact flash, etc. It works fine in the sense >of being able to put media into it and mount the media, using the >usb-storage module, and copy files off the media. The devices look like >scsi disk drives, as expected with the use of usb-storage. > >It would be ideal to be able to use autofs to mount these drives, as I >do for my dvd and cdrw drives, so I added the appropriate entries into >auto.mount, the control file for my /mount automount directory. It >looks like this: > ># Automount map file ># 6/4/02 nl ># >#format: ># key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location >dvd -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev,exec,user :/dev/dvd >cdrw -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev,exec,user :/dev/cdrw >floppy -fstype=vfat,nosuid,noauto,user,nodev,unhide :/dev/floppy >cf -fstype=vfat,ro,nosuid,noauto,user :/dev/cf >sm -fstype=vfat,ro,nosuid,noauto,user :/dev/sm > >/dev/cf and /dev/sm are symlinks to /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1. > >The media cards automount all right, but the protections on the >directories created by autofs is rwxr--r--, which means I cannot cd >into or list the files in subdirectories on the media unless I become >root, which is not ideal. And that's the problem. > >I don't have this problem with automounted cd's or dvd's - the >protection mask for those is rwxr-xr-x, so all works fine. > >Is there something I should have done in the auto.mount file? Is this >something about the way the cf and sm cards work (they are formatted in >a digital camera, so I don't really have any control over how various >bits are set in the filesystem. > >Any thoughts/help appreciated. I don't use automount but to get proper permissions for my vfat fs's i use this type or entry in fstab /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win98 vfat defaults,gid=6,umask=002 then as long as I am in group 6 ( disk on my box ) I have read access... The key is the umask portion and equates to permissions of 775 or rwxrwxr-x in case you aren't familiar with umask. HTH, Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
