On 22/12/11 11:26, Sharon Kimble wrote: > I have an external usb hard drive that I use solely for storing > backups which are done every three hours of my home folder. It is > 'owned' by root, but I want to have the user boztu to have ownership > of it so that boztu can write to it from their cron backup program, > but how do I do it please? > > At the moment root writes to it at midnight and creates a new dated > folder, because only root has write access to it. Then every three > hours boztu writes to it and backs up the changes in the home folder, > but I want user boztu to do =all= of it including creating the new > dated folder. > > Does this make sense? > > Sharon.
Assuming you mount it somewhere beneath /media, and that SOLID (or whatever) is set to mount the drive there everytime # chown -R boztu:boztu /media/somewhere Cheers -- Iceweasel/Firefox extensions for finding answers to Debian questions:- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/Scott_Ferguson/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ef280df.2010...@gmail.com
