THANK YOU everybody for your advices.
finally, with :
chown user:group dir , and
chmod 1777 dir, it seems to be working.
i will consider later the /tmp permission structure.
tests are always the best way to understand a system !
Marc
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On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 02:03:13PM -1000, Jacky Li wrote:
> how about the same permission structure as your /tmp directory?
in octal mode ( from rigth to left)
7 for the other
7 for the group
7 for the owner
? your question ( 4: set user ID bit, 2: set group ID bit, 1: sticky bit )
so the answ
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 02:30, marc dobler wrote:
> hello !
>
> i've just created a ext2 partition as root.
> but as normal user, no way to write in it ...
>
> basically, mounting by user is :
>
> /dev/sdb5 /mnt/newpart ext2 rw,user 0 0
>
> i tried many options,
> but no way to WRITE
how about the same permission structure as your /tmp directory?
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On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 08:37:10AM -, Cannon, Andrew wrote:
[ ... ]
> chmod 766 directory (for rwx as root and rw for group and global)
766 for regular file
777 for directories
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thank you Andrew for your very clever suggestion.
i just forgot to change the ownership of the newpart_dir.
unfortunately,
this procedure does not seem to work properly in my case :
/dev/sdb5 is located on an external HDD.
chown user:group newpart_dir works instantaneously and perfectly,
b
Do you want to own this as root or change ownership to the user?
I've created partitions as root and then I use the command
chown user:group directory
to change ownership. The user can then write to the directory.
If you want to have read/write permissions but still retain ownership by
root (sa
