[Leaplist] Permissions for USB/FW drives

[William A. Mahaffey III]

patrick wrote:

>Running SimplyMepis 6.5, on a Dell Dimension 4100 (933mhz, 512 MB RAM)
>
>I have some really great external drives, of 120Gb, 250Gb, and 500Gb.  I
>  put files like docs, and some Linux and *BSD ISOs into folders, and I
>want to share them with torrent applications, but, permissions won't let
>RW permissions through.  So, ktorrent pukes and says permission is
>denied to share them.
>
>So, questions are:
>
>Removable external drives that auto mount are accessible by root, and
>super user in the filesystem.  Is it legit to change the rw permissions
>in their file system (which, btw, is NOT /etc/fstab!)?
>  
>

Make sure that the mount point is correctly permitted (w/o the drives 
actually mounted) or you will see this type of problem. Also, you may 
need to pass options in the automount argument string to permit 
other-than-root access. See the man mount & automount pages ....

>The permissions are noted to be in another file, uDev  which seems a bit
>obtuse for me to edit, when I try... vi /uDev (opens a blank edit for
>uDev!),  so, does anyone know where uDev is located?
>
>Or know how I can mount external drives with permissions for r/w to
>applications like ktorrent?
>
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