On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 3:22 AM, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote:
> I have a machine set aside for learning by experimentation.
> It will have at least Squeeze *and* Wheezy installed.
> I have created a multi-GB partition that I wish accessible to both.
> I have done install from
> [Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.5 "Squeeze" - Official i386 DVD Binary-1
> 20120512-13:45]
>
> I successfully mounted "mydatapartition" by clicking on it under the
> "Places" dropdown menu and responding with the root password.
>
> That placed its icon on my desktop as expected. Clicking on it opened a file
> browser. Clicking in the empty area displayed a menu including "Create
> Folder". T'was greyed out :{ As I had no problem creating a folder on the
> "Desktop" I concluded "permission issue".Yeah ... > Google was unsatisfactory, links discussed "why &/or what" not "how". > I suspect that if I followed links from https://wiki.debian.org/Permissions > I could figure out how to do it from command-line. It's a good exercise in refreshing your understanding of the underlying issues. For my taste, when I make such a partition, I make a user and group to own the partition, and set that user/group to nologin. Then I can set the group permissions on the folder to R/W and make all the users that write to it members of the group. I find it helps. actually, to make subfolders of said folder for each user that will write to that folder, and then the top shared folder can be set to read-only for the group. > *BUT* I'm looking for the > GUI solution. Right-click and "Properties" didn't get you a tabbed dialog with a "Permissions" tab? You may need a few (tens of) seconds for the response to the right-click, depending on your system resources in use. Oh, and you may find you want to set your sudoers up. Many of the gui tools are going through sudo instead of su now, to avoid overuse of the root password. > Sub-question: When operating in a terminal, one may issue a "su command" and > then proceed with full root privileges/responsibilities. What is GUI > equivalent? That's one of the many badder ideas that Microsoft has patented. We'll be free of GUI widgets that try to do that for another seven or eight years, if I remember right. In the meantime, synaptic and others essentially go through su or sudo and pop up a dialog asking for your root or admin password. And I avoid those dialogs by running the tools sudo from the command line in my admin account and avoiding using them in my working account. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- 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/caar43imgyg7gong79948zle4o_3k1qu+zgrz-5_l1is2d1x...@mail.gmail.com
