Re: [LUG] Ext2 permissions

[Andrew Rogers <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Neil Stone wrote:

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> Andrew Rogers wrote:
> | I have a USB memory stick that I did mke2fs on. I put a file in a
> | directory on the memory stick from one PC but when I plugged it in
> | another PC the UIDs don't matchup.
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> | Can the permissions of a directory be changed so that new files created
> | in that directory have uid=nobody and gid=nogroup?
> |
> | Regards
> | Andrew Rogers
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> If you specify a uid and gid at mount time (or in /etc/fstab) you should
> be able to.
Added to /etc/fstab the line:

/dev/usbdisk /mnt/usbdisk ext2 noauto,users,gid=nogroup,uid=nobody 0 0

but when i did

$ mount /mnt/usbdisk/

I get:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/usbdisk,
      or too many mounted file systems

But it mounted fine with:

/dev/usbdisk /mnt/usbdisk ext2 noauto,users 0 0

The mount manpage seems a bit vague in the ext2 options area.

Regards
Andrew Rogers



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